Spanish Benedictine nun is emerging as one of the most outspoken — and atypical — leaders of southern Europe’s far left
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In eight months since an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi left four Americans dead, a Republican-led investigation has focused on potential missteps by the White House and come away with nothing significant. There has been little attention given, however, to covert actions by the Central Intelligence Agency that were partially uncovered during the September 11, 2012 attack. That may be changing.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appointed former Dutch development minister Albert Gerard Koenders as U.N. special envoy for Mali and head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the West African country.
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Stevens’ top deputy in Libya, Greg Hicks, made this point in congressional testimony on Wednesday, but it was omitted from the State Department’s Accountability Review Board report published in December.
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Mars One plans to run a reality TV show with an “audience vote” deciding who will ultimately get the nod. The bn cost for the mission has to come from somewhere.
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In a press release last Tuesday, DynCorp International announced that the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) had awarded the company with a .6 million contract. The purpose of the contract is to “recruit and support up to 100 UNPOL and 10 U.N. Corrections Advisors.
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Private company Mars One hopes to land a person on Mars by 2023 in an attempt to establish a permanent colony.
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The UAE is the first Arab and Gulf country to have a mission at the Nato headquarters.
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“Objectively, it [the army] must be entirely rebuilt,” said French Brigadier General Francois Lecointre.
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Impossible it isn’t, but the Inspiration Mars Foundation’s proposed mission would run the risk of catastrophic failure
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