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Britain enacts blanket ban on protests

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PressTV The British government has applied a blanket ban on all kind of marches and protest gatherings in London amid fears of violence and disorder. The Home Office announced the blanket ban on all marches in five London boroughs for 30 days starting from September 2, the Independent reported. Home Secretary Theresa May banned all marches in [...]

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Taliban: 64 US troops killed in Kandahar

By   /  August 27, 2011  /  Conflict, World  /  1 Comment

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PressTV The Taliban claim that 64 US-led troops have been killed in two bomb attacks they launched in the southern city of Kandahar earlier on Saturday. According to incoming reports one attack claimed the lives of 36 US-led soldiers and the second attack killed 28 troops.   © Copyright Press TV – Published at Set [...]

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Vitamin A can save thousands of kids

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PressTV Giving vitamin A supplements to children under the age of five can save the lives of 600,000 kids in low- and middle-income countries each year. A review of 43 trials showed that vitamin A supplementation reduced child mortality by 24 percent in developing countries by preventing deadly infections in children. A team of researchers [...]

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Ron Paul Issues Statement on Libya

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Ron Paul Infowars LAKE JACKSON, Texas– Today, 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul issued a statement on the situation in Libya. See comments below. “The current situation in Libya may be a short term victory for Empire, but it is a loss for our American Republic. And, I fear it may be devastating to the [...]

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Bye-bye Gaddafi, welcome Al-Qaeda? Pepe Escobar to RT

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While Tripoli is celebrating the end of a dictatorship, analysts are skeptical democracy is next in line for Libya. Journalist Pepe Escobar told RT, Al-Qaeda is already effectively in power in the capital. (See video left)  

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Libya: Tripoli Stands in Defiance of NATO

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Tony Cartalucci Infowars Despite sweeping headlines claiming the Benghazi rebel terrorists have shifted their leadership over to Tripoli after continuous claims of the city falling to rebels after over a week of continuous fighting, BBC has slipped out the fact that this claim is a verified lie. Buried within an article titled, “Horror scenes at [...]

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18 killed in Algeria suicide attack – hospital source

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Lamine Chikhi AlertNet Two suicide bombers hit a military barracks in Algeria on Friday, killing 18 people in one of the deadliest attacks in the North African country in recent years. The attackers arrived by motorbike near the entrance of the barracks in Cherchell soon after iftar — when Muslims break their daily fast during [...]

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CIA censors ex-FBI agent’s 9/11 book

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PressTV The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has expurgated extensive parts of a book by a former FBI agent on September 11, 2001 events in a bid to rewrite the history of post-9/11 America, a report says. The CIA will not allow the full publication of a memoir by Ali H. Soufan, the former FBI [...]

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Pentagon panicking over storm in a China teacup

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Pentagon panicking over storm in a China teacup

Russia Today A new Pentagon report warns China will become a leading military power by 2020. But Conn Hallinan, an expert on Asian military affairs, believes the US military lobby is exaggerating the threat to save their budgets. “There is a push to cut the military budget,” Hallinan said. “The arms companies and the military [...]

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Rebels Cleanse Tripoli’s Abu Slim Area

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Voltaire Network Overnight on Thursday 25 August, the rebels attacked the district of Abu Slim in Tripoli, hunting down loyal Gaddafi officials and their families. France 24 TV correspondent Matthieu Mabin, reporting from Tripoli, provides a particularly chilling account: “What happened had less to do with fighting than with stamping out the last pockets of [...]

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US diplomat threatens to cut PA funds

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PressTV A senior US diplomat has warned that the United States would cut financial aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if it pursues a statehood vote at the United Nations next month. “In case the Palestinian Authority seeks to upgrade its position at the UN through the General Assembly, the US Congress will take punitive [...]

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Modded mosquitoes could help fight tropical disease

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Chris Nova TG Daily Scientists are currently attempting to control dengue fever, a tropical disease spread by mosquito bites, in many parts of the world. One group of researchers has proposed a rather interesting solution: to replace mosquitoes in the wild with specially infected skeeters that don’t spread the dengue virus. According to the Associated [...]

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