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A 23 kiloton tower shot called BADGER, fired on April 18, 1953 at the Nevada Test Site, as part of the Operation Upshot-Knothole nuclear test series. A 'Not So' Smiling Buddha
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | Rejecting the horrific specter of stunned, terrified, blackened and bleeding and suffering survivors, hands and arms alo... (photo: Federal Government of the United States) WorldNews.com
IAEA   Nuclear weapon   Photos   War   Wikipedia: Nuclear weapon  
A demonstrator and police face off during protest march at this weekend's NATO summit in Chicago Sunday, May 20, 2012 in Chicago. More protests planned for Chicago NATO summit
May 21, 2012 -- Updated 1248 GMT (2048 HKT) Protesters rally in Chicago on Sunday, May 20, the first day of the NATO summit. A week of demonstrations led up to the two-da... (photo: AP / Charles Rex Arbogast) CNN
Nato   Photos   Protests   US   Wikipedia: 2012 Chicago Summit  
Henry Kissinger - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2008 numb2 What Gives Them The Right To Frisk Henry Kissinger?
| No one should have been surprised when Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger issued a statement praising the the Transportation Securit... (photo: Creative Commons / Flickr upload bot) Huffington Post
Business   Industry   Photos   Transport   Wikipedia: Henry Kissinger  
A policeman collects evidence at the site of a suicide bomb attack at a parade square in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, May 21, 2012. Yemen: Suicide bomber kills 96 at military parade
Zeenews Bureau | Sana'a: A suicide bomber killed at least 96 soldiers during a rehearsal for a military parade in Yemen's capital city of Sana'a, a report said on Monday.... (photo: AP / Hani Mohammed) Zeenews
Al Qaeda   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: 20112012 Yemeni revolution   Yemen  
Indian Army soldiers  take positions near a house where two militants were holed-up during an encounter at Tral in Pulwama district on Wednesday 55 KMS From Srinagar on 02, March 2011. Hizbul terrorist killed in J&K encounter, LeT module busted in Poonch
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetJAMMU: A Hizbul Mujahideen militant was shot dead in an encounter with security forces in Kishtwar district, early morning on Monday. | Deputy I... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar) The Times Of India
Fire   Kashmir   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Kashmir  
Demonstrators make their way towards Michigan Ave. during a protest march as a part of this weekend's NATO summit in Chicago Sunday, May 20, 2012 in Chicago. Protesters clash with police at NATO summit
| Protesters have clashed with riot police as they tried to march towards the venue of the NATO summit in the US city of Chicago. | The two sides were locked in a standof... (photo: AP / Kim Johnson Flodin) Al Jazeera
Chicago   Nato   Photos   Protest   Wikipedia: 2012 Chicago Summit  
Press conferenceby International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo When might is not right
THE name Muammar al-Jarud, for many across the globe, means little, if anything. In Libya, al-Jarud represents a victim of misuse of global power by Nato, a loose associa... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider) Independent online
Anything   Court   Libya   Nato   Photos   Photos   Power   UN   Wikipedia: Luis Moreno Ocampo  
In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 file photo Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing but recently released from his Scottish prison on compassionate grounds, is seen below a portrait of Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, as he is visited by a group of African parliamentarians, not pictured, at Tripoli Medical Center in Tripoli, Libya. UK rules out further Lockerbie inquiries after Al-Megrahi's death
| The prime minister said the court case, which convicted Megrahi, was properly conducted and news of his death on Sunday should “be a time to remember the 270 peop... (photo: AP / Abdel Magid Al Fergany) Mail Guardian South Africa
Libya   Photos   Terrorism   UK   Wikipedia: Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial  
Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, top left, is hugged by Seif al-Islam el- Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, upon his arrival at airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009. Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, Convicted in 1988 Lockerbie Bombing, Dies at 60
| Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, has died in Libya, family members told news... (photo: AP / Amr Nabil) The New York Times
Bombing   Libya   Lockerbie   Photos   Wikipedia: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi  
President Barack Obama arrives to brief journalists following the G-8 Summit Saturday, May 19, 2012 at Camp David, Md. NATO Protesters Planned Obama HQ Attack: Police
Chicago. Three men have been charged with plotting to attack President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters and lob Molotov cocktails at police as days of protest heate... (photo: AP / Charles Dharapak) Jakarta Globe
Government   Obama   Photos   Politics   President  
Yemeni policemen sit in a pickup truck in front of Sanaa's International airport in Yemen, Sunday, April 8, 2012. Yemen's hidden war with al-Qaeda
Since 12 May fierce fighting has been raging in southern Yemen between government forces, backed by US advisers, and Islamist militants allied to al-Qaeda in the Arabian ... (photo: AP / Hani Mohammed) BBC News
Photos   Qaeda   War   Wikipedia: 20112012 Yemeni revolution   Yemen  
An Afghan villager unlocks the door of a suspected homemade explosives factory for U.S. Army Spc. Timothy Rodgers in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, May 4, 2012. The NATO Afghan summit: Reality and illusion
| Everything has been moving forward, step by step. At the beginning of May, after months of negotiation, US President Barack Obama made a triumphal appearance at the Afg... (photo: US Army / Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod) Al Jazeera
Afghanistan   Nato   Photos   US   Wikipedia: 2012 Chicago Summit  
In this Monday, May 14, 2012 photo, a girl walks past Syrian rebels at Khaldiyeh neighborhood in Homs province, central Syria. Syria-wide protests urged as Qaeda fears grows
| AFP - Anti-regime activists have called for Syria-wide protests on Friday in support of students in Aleppo, a day after thousands of them rallied, emboldened by the pre... (photo: AP / Fadi Zaidan) France24
Al Qaeda   Photos   Protest   Syria   Wikipedia: Syrian uprising (2011present)  
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon waves during a visit to the construction site of a housing project in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on February 2, 2012. Protesters threw shoes, sand and small stones at the convoy of UN chief Ban Ki-moon as he entered the Gaza Strip for a visit.Phoot by Ahmed Deeb/WN UN says al Qaeda behind Syria suicide bombs death toll from civil war reaches 10,000
UN leader Ban Ki-moon has said he believes al-Qaeda committed a major bomb attack in Damascus that left dozens dead, and that up to 10,000 people have now been killed in ... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) The Daily Telegraph
Photos   Qaeda   Syria   UN   Wikipedia: Syrian uprising (2011present)  
In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 photo, police officers armed with AK-47 rifles stand guard at sandbagged bunkers along a major road in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The radical sect Boko Haram, which in August 2011 bombed the United Nations headquarters in Nigeria, is the gravest security threat to Africa's most populous nation and is gaining prominence US mulls 'terrorist' designation for Boko Haram
Zeenews Bureau | Washington: The US State Department may designate Nigeria’s militant Islamist sect Boko Haram, as a "foreign terrorist organisation”, a news agency s... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba) Zeenews
Nigeria   Photos   Terrorism   Washington   Wikipedia: Boko Haram  
Donna Summer's death 'may have been caused by 9-11 dust' Donna Summer's death 'may have been caused by 9-11 dust'
| London, May 18 (ANI): Disco legend Donna Summer's lung cancer, which ultimately led to her death in Florida on Thursday, is said to have been triggered by toxic dust fr... (photo: WN / Aruna Gilbert) Newstrack India
Cancer   Death   Donna Summer   Photos   Wikipedia: Donna Summer  
President Barack Obama his fists in the air when he stopped in his chief of staff's office to monitor the staff's progress in lobbying members of Congress to vote for the bill. Obama caught up in pastor smear campaign
| Barack Obama ... a "metrosexual black Abe Lincoln". Photo: AP | The Wrap | It is not often you get to see inside a political smear campaign before it is... (photo: Public Domain / The White House from Washington, DC) Canberra Times
Government   Obama   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Barack Obama  
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), left, and the guided-missile cruiser USS Cape St. George (CG 71) transit the Strait of Hormuz, 1 May, 2012. US Is Ready for Attack on Iran If Need Be, Says Ambassador to Israel
| The United States is militarily ready to carry out a strike on Iran to stop it from obtaining a nuclear weapon if international pressure fails, American ambassador to I... (photo: US Navy / MCS3 Alex R. Forster) ABC News
Iran   Israel   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Nuclear program of Iran  
Syrian rebels are seen in Idlib, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Syria accused of new 'massacre,' UN team evacuated
| AFP - Syrian forces were accused of summarily executing 15 civilians, as members of a UN team of observers were evacuated from a shelled town the day after a bomb blast... (photo: AP) France24
Photos   Syria   UN   Violece   Wikipedia: Timeline of the 20112012 Syrian uprising  
President Barack Obama addresses audience members during a posthumous Medal of Honor ceremony for U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller in the East Room of the White House Oct. 6, 2010. U.S. sends warning to Saleh backers in Yemen
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States warned supporters of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Wednesday it may freeze their assets if they hamper the tran... (photo: US Army / D. Myles Cullen) Daily Press
Photos   Qaeda   Washington   Wikipedia: 20112012 Yemeni revolution   Yemen  
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