Turkey’s ‘standing Man’ To Join Ranks Of Icons?
June 19th, 2013The image was stark: a silent, solitary figure standing in passive defiance to the Turkish prime minister’s demand for protesters to clear Taksim Square in central Istanbul. The challenge by performance artist Erdem Gunduz is catching on with other protesters in Turkey, encouraged by social media into imitating his gesture across the country. It’s too
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Social-network Gaffes Plague Japanese Politicians
June 19th, 2013TOKYO (AP) — On the Internet, no one can save you from yourself. That is a lesson many Japanese politicians have learned recently in painful, awkward and at times costly fashion. In the latest flap, a senior reconstruction official in charge of helping victims of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear crisis was dismissed last week after
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Syria State TV Says Explosion Hits Military Depot
June 19th, 2013BEIRUT (AP) — An explosion at a military depot outside Syria’s coastal city of Latakia left six people lightly injured on Wednesday, state television said. State TV said a “technical error” caused the explosion at a base used by the army corps of engineers. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a
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Karzai Suspends Talks With US Over Taliban Move
June 19th, 2013KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Afghan president on Wednesday suspended talks with the United States on a new security deal to protest the way his government was being left out of initial peace negotiations with the Taliban meant to find a way to end the nearly 12-year war. The move by Hamid Karzai raises tensions
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Bomb Blasts, Gunmen Attack UN Office In Mogadishu
June 19th, 2013MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Al-Qaida-linked militants detonated multiple bomb blasts and engaged in ongoing battles with security forces in an attempt to breach the main U.N. compound in Mogadishu, officials said Wednesday. Somali police officer Abdi Hassan said gunmen had breached the compound and were inside, while the militant group al-Shabab said on its Twitter
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