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Anti-Hezbollah protester killed in Lebanon

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 23:53

Men wielding batons and wearing yellow arm bands evoking Lebanon's Hezbollah attacked protesters outside the Iranian Embassy in Beirut Sunday during a rally against the militant group's participation in the Syrian civil war. One protester was killed, a senior Lebanese military official and witnesses said.

A military statement said the protesters had just arrived at the embassy area when clashes broke out and a civilian opened fire. The embassy is in a predominantly pro-Hezbollah area.

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Libya army chief resigns after clash in Benghazi

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 23:51

One of Libya's highest military officers resigned Sunday after clashes between protesters and a government-aligned militia he was in charge of left 31 people dead in the eastern city of Benghazi, the deadliest such violence in a country where armed factions hold sway.

The bloodshed underscored the growing public anger over the government's failure to build an army capable of reining in the militias that dominate parts of the country nearly two years after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi. The militias have become bolder in trying to shape Libya's politics.

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Budapest braces for swollen Danube

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 23:49

Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in a region of eastern Germany where the Elbe river has flooded and burst through a dam, while swollen Danube was approaching Budapest where soldiers and volunteers are building flood walls, officials said Sunday.

Parts of the south and north ends of the Hungarian capital are already under water, but the city's downtown area, including the parliament building and several large hotels near the river bank, are seemingly out of direct danger as flood walls were built to a height of 30.5 feet (9.30 meters).

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Cioran, Debord, Laborit, et le média

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/08/2013 - 06:13

J'avais lu
Tout feu ( 1931 - 1994 ) Guy Debord
J'avais lu
Tout feu ( 1911 - 1995 ) Emil Cioran
J'avais lu
Tout feu ( 1914 - 1995 ) Henri Laborit
J'avais prévu
Qu'ils décéderaient à peu de distance
Je l'avais dit
A ( née en 1941 ) Alice Becker-Ho veuve Debord, dans une correspondance
Tous trois, ils le disaient, bien haut
Tout est comme le couteau de Jeannot
Du ceci n'est pas une pipe
Ils avaient compris le déclic
Tant de gens qui écrivent, des célébrités

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South Africa: Mandela taken to hospital

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/08/2013 - 03:39

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is in "serious but stable" condition after being taken to a hospital to be treated for a lung infection, the government said Saturday, prompting an outpouring of concern from admirers of a man who helped to end white racist rule.

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Obama, Xi seek to ease tensions on cyber security

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/08/2013 - 03:39

President Barack Obama and China's President Xi Jinping agreed on Friday to work together to try to resolve disputes over cyber security, a major irritant between the world's top two economic powers.

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Rival Koreas set for first official talks in over two years

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/08/2013 - 03:38

North and South Korea will meet for working-level discussions at a border village on Sunday, South Korea's Unification Ministry said, in what will be the first official talks between the rivals in more than two years.

Tensions on the Korean peninsula have eased in the past month, having run high for several weeks after the United Nations toughened sanctions against North Korea following its third nuclear test in February.

In another sign of easing tensions, the North reopened a Red Cross hotline with South Korea on Friday.

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Police seek motive in Southern California killing spree

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/08/2013 - 03:37

Police on Saturday were investigating what prompted a man dressed in black to embark on a string of shootings in the beach community of Santa Monica, killing four people before police gunned him down in a community college library.

Five other people were wounded in the shooting rampage, which unfolded just a few miles from where President Barack Obama was speaking at a political fundraiser elsewhere in Santa Monica, west of Los Angeles.

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Koreas agree to meeting in bid to ease tensions

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/08/2013 - 03:36

North and South Korea will meet Sunday at a village straddling their heavily armed border as the sides try to lower tension and restore projects once seen as symbols of their rapprochement, officials said.

The North delivered its agreement Saturday to hold talks at Panmunjom through a Red Cross line restored a day earlier, the Unification Ministry said in a text message. Pyongyang had earlier favored its border city of Kaesong as the venue.

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Global netizens worried over US spying

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/08/2013 - 03:36

News that the U.S. government has been snooping on Internet users worldwide came as little surprise to global netizens, who said Friday they have few expectations of online privacy as governments increasingly monitor people's digital lives, often with Internet companies' acquiescence.

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