The U.S. and several key allies looked again Wednesday for a strategy to end Syria’s civil war, their united efforts unable at the moment to stem the Assad regime’s military gains and Washington still unwilling to join those providing the rebels with lethal military aid.
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“[America] has been hacked. That is a computer term when the operating system of a computer is taken over and the computer does things the owner does not want it to. That is what has been happening to American democracy….”
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Thousands of Portuguese civil servants have poured onto the streets of Lisbon, demanding the resignation of the government over its unpopular austerity measures.
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Saudi Arabia has financed a large purchase of infantry weapons from Croatia and quietly funneled them to anti-government fighters in Syria.
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The Russian backed candidate Boris (Bidzina) Ivanishvili won the recent elections and now has to wait until October until Saakashvili has to step down. Now there is a movement afoot to speed up that process.
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Argentina has refused to make payments, and uses the term “vulture funds” when NML Capital and others have refused two opportunities to swap defaulted bonds for new, less valuable bonds that the government has reliably paid since 2005.
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The IMF said on Wednesday Jordan’s decision to raise fuel prices by up to 53 percent last month was “an important step,” despite violent protests in which three were killed and more than 70 injured.
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Hillary Clinton still intends to step down as secretary of state. That will take place likely “days” after President Barack Obama’s second inauguration in January.
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Europe’s second pair of fully operational Galileo satellites was successfully launched Friday (12 October 2012) from the European spaceport in French Guiana, South America.
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A high-placed US source confirmed to debkafile that Turkey had, by forcing a Syrian civilian Airbus A320 plane en route from Moscow to Damascus to land in Ankara and declaring Syrian airspace “unsafe,” taken the first step toward creating a no-fly zone over Syria.
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