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In this image made from Associated Press Television video, police respond at the scene at the U.S. Army base in Fort Hood Texas where a soldier opened fire, unleashing a stream of gunfire that left at least 12 people dead and at least 31 wounded.

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At Fort Hood, carnage, disbelief and questions
read more Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

An Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire yesterday on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, killing at least 12 people and wounding 31 in what is believed to be the deadliest mass shooting on a U.S. military base in history. The gunman, identified by authorities as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who once practiced at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in...

Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change party addresses a press conference in Harare, Saturday, April, 5, 2008.

photo: AP / Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi

Zimbabwe back from brink as Morgan Tsvangirai calls off boycott
read more The Guardian

Morgan Tsvangirai accuses Robert Mugabe of flouting their deal Photograph: Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images 's unity government pulled back from the brink last night when , the prime minister, called off his boycott of power sharing with president . "We have suspended our disengagement from the government with immediate effect," said Tsvangirai after...

Activists of the environmental protest group Greenpeace stage an extreme weather event as delegates arrive for a summit on climate change, holding a banner reading "Zapatero: Stop the climate change" at the Climate Change Talks in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009.

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UN climate change conference likely to fail, officials warn
read more Irish Times

THE UN climate change conference in Copenhagen next month will fail to produce an agreement to combat the threat of global warming, British officials have warned. They forecast here yesterday that a deal could take another 12 months to strike. This gloomy assessment of the latest state of play was delivered at an off-the-record briefing by senior...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gives a television interview following a tour around Leyland Trucks in Leyland, Lancashire Thursday Oct. 15, 2009.

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UK's Brown stands firm on Afghanistan, says Britain 'will not be deterred'
read more Star Tribune

LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to defend his government's commitment to Afghanistan in a major speech Friday, saying the war is essential to his country's security, according to excerpts released in advance by his office. The speech comes after the deaths of seven British soldiers in the past week, including five who were shot and...

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Several shot dead at US army base
read more Al Jazeera

The US army has said that at least 12 people have been killed and at least 31 injured in a shooting at the Fort Hood base in Texas. Lieutenant-General Bob Cone, the base commander, said that one suspected shooter was killed and two others were arrested after the attack on Thursday at the facility, which lies halfway between...

Palestinians react during a funeral of four men killed in Israeli military operations, at the mosque in Beit Lahiya northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. Israel showed no signs of slowing its bruising 19-day offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers, striking some 60 targets on Wednesday. Israel launched the onslaught on Dec. 27, seeking to punish the Hamas militant group for years of rocket attacks on southern Israel. The offensive has killed more than 940 Palestinians, half of them civilians, according to Palestinian hospital of

photo: AP / Fadi Adwan

UN endorses Goldstone report
read more Al Jazeera

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a UN-sponsored report which says Israel committed war crimes during last winter's military assault on the Gaza Strip. The Goldstone report, which accuses both Israel and Hamas of war crimes, has already been endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council, which sponsored the...

Citizens shop at a market in central Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday, Oct 3, 2009.

photo: AP / Yahya Ahmed

Standoff over Iraq's election law goes on, threatening January's vote
read more The Miami Herald

BAGHDAD -- Iraqi lawmakers blew another deadline Thursday as they continued haggling over an election law that's crucial to the country's political stability and to the Obama administration's plans for a speedy withdrawal of U.S. troops. At one point Thursday, it appeared that Iraq's Council of Representatives had reached a compromise on the main...

Supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya protest demanding Zelaya's return the power outside the national Congress in Tegucigalpa, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009.

photo: AP / Eduardo Verdugo

Honduras reaches deadline for new unity government
read more Houston Chronicle

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Efforts to create a unity government aimed at ending Honduras' political standoff appeared to be dragging past Thursday's deadline, though representatives of the overthrown president and his rivals reported progress. An accord forged last week with the help of U.S. diplomats gave the two sides until Thursday to install a...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gives a speech in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009.

photo: AP / Bernat Armangue

I will not seek re-election - Abbas
read more The Guardian

The Palestinian president has said he does not want to run for re-election in the January polls. Mahmoud Abbas said the stalemate in peace negotiations with Israel prompted his decision not to run again. He charged the US with backtracking on its Midle East policy and refusing to press Israel to freeze construction in its West Bank settlements. In...

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee member Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio takes his seat at left, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, during the committee's markup on Climate Change legislation

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US Senate panel approves Democratic climate bill
read more Khaleej Times

WASHINGTON - A controversial climate change bill cleared its first hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, allowing President Barack Obama to tout progress in the run-up to next month's global warming talks in Copenhagen. Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ignored a Republican boycott and used their majority to approve...