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• Veteran Receives Mortgage-Free Home from Tim McGraw, Operation Homefront and Chase
• Syria defections hurt army morale, core intact
• WikiLeaks targets Syria with 'embarrassing' trove
• DESTRUCTION OF TIMBUKTU IS LATEST AL-QAIDA ATTACK ON CULTURE
• "Savages" is a flashy but flimsy drug war story
• Muhammad Ali to receive National Constitution Center’s 2012 Liberty Medal
• Iraq warns al-Qaida flowing into Syria
• UK army to lose 17 major units amid austerity push
• French paper asserts officials know more about Arafat's death than told
• WikiLeaks begins publishing two million Syria emails
• WikiLeaks says starts releasing hacked Syria emails
• Iraq says al Qaeda members crossing into Syria
• 'Savages': Golden State Warriors
• Syrian refugees flood Jordan, straining resources
• Medical Device Company MicroTransponder Presents Positive Tinnitus Clinical Trial Results at Tinnitus Research Institute Conference in Europe
• US Military Brainstorms Future Game-Changers
• Yemen-style power transfer unlikely in Syria: Iraq FM
• UK denies army cuts undermine its military might
• UK govt details major army cutbacks
• Suicide bomber kills three in northern Iraq: police
• Iraq says al-Qaida fighters flowing into Syria
• Officials: 3 killed in Baghdad house bombing
• Insight: Local wars blur al Qaeda's threat to West
• WTO to lower entry bar for poorest countries
• Today in History
• Assange charges are 'hilarious': Ecuadoran FM
• Australia rescues 162 from asylum seeker boat

Veteran Receives Mortgage-Free Home from Tim McGraw, Operation Homefront and Chase Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:35 PM PDT CHICAGO, July 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At his July 7 concert at Soldier Field, Tim McGraw will congratulate U.S. Army Sergeant Linda Brashears on being awarded a mortgage-free home in Rockford, Ill. Country music superstar Tim McGraw recently launched a nationwide program called HomeFront, in partnership with Operation Homefront and Chase, to award mortgage-free homes to wounded warriors and service members at each concert of his summer tour.

Syria defections hurt army morale, core intact Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:15 PM PDT As Syrian army defections multiply, the backbone of the regime remains grounded on a loyal core of officers motivated either by conviction or fear of a post-revolt purge of their ranks.

WikiLeaks targets Syria with 'embarrassing' trove Posted: 05 Jul 2012 03:08 PM PDT WikiLeaks – known for publishing secret government and corporate documents – is focusing its latest effort on the tumult in Syria.

DESTRUCTION OF TIMBUKTU IS LATEST AL-QAIDA ATTACK ON CULTURE Posted: 05 Jul 2012 02:32 PM PDT WASHINGTON -- The wonderful patriotic film of 1942, "Yankee Doodle Dandy," was shown on TV over the Fourth of July holiday, with all that movie's potential of making you want to march up and down for your country. The original Yankee Doodle Dandy was, of course, George M. Cohan, the great Broadway producer, composer, performer, dancer and singer, played in unlikely manner by tough guy James Cagney.At one point, Cohan and his wife have decided to quit Broadway and travel around the world. "You'll have to go to Timbuktu," his partner says. "We're already booked," the irrepressible Cohan answers. ...

"Savages" is a flashy but flimsy drug war story Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:37 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - It's not that I couldn't believe a ménage-à-trois between a botanist-entrepreneur-philanthropist, a bubble-headed Southern California princess, and a haunted and hard-bitten veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I just don't believe the one that's at the center of Oliver Stone's latest, "Savages. ...

Muhammad Ali to receive National Constitution Center’s 2012 Liberty Medal Posted: 05 Jul 2012 01:09 PM PDT The National Constitution Center's 2012 Liberty Medal ceremony will recognize Muhammad Ali as a champion of freedom, the Center announced at a press conference on Thursday afternoon.

Iraq warns al-Qaida flowing into Syria Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:52 AM PDT Iraq asserted Thursday that al-Qaida insurgents are streaming out of the country to carry out attacks in Syria, an ominous development as the Syrian conflict enflames an already hostile region.

UK army to lose 17 major units amid austerity push Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:45 AM PDT British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond said Thursday the country's army will lose 17 major units in a sweeping restructuring to handle the loss of 20,000 soldiers under the government's austerity drive.

French paper asserts officials know more about Arafat's death than told Posted: 05 Jul 2012 11:32 AM PDT French newspaper Le Figaro, citing an unnamed member of the French secret service, today said authorities know more of the causes of Yasser Arafat's 2004 death at a French military hospital than they have publicly released.

WikiLeaks begins publishing two million Syria emails Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:57 AM PDT WikiLeaks on Thursday began publishing more than two million emails from Syrian political figures which could shed light on a crackdown that has killed thousands.

WikiLeaks says starts releasing hacked Syria emails Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:53 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - The WikiLeaks website said on Thursday it had begun publishing more than 2 million emails from Syrian government officials that would embarrass not only Damascus, which is trying to crush a 16-month rebellion, but also its opponents. WikiLeaks spokeswoman Sarah Harrison told a news conference the emails were from Syrian political figures, government ministries and companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012. ...

Iraq says al Qaeda members crossing into Syria Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:53 AM PDT BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq has "solid information" that al Qaeda militants are crossing from Iraq into Syria to carry out attacks and has sent reinforcements to the border, the foreign minister said on Thursday. Hoshiyar Zebari said al Qaeda "operational officers" appeared to be moving through old smuggling routes carrying weapons. "We have solid information and intelligence that members of al Qaeda terrorist networks have gone in the other direction, to Syria, to help, to liaise, to carry out terrorist attacks," he told a news conference in Baghdad. ...

'Savages': Golden State Warriors Posted: 05 Jul 2012 10:01 AM PDT For many a young actor, there seems to be nothing more exciting than to go gritty, to put on a cheap accent and some eyeliner (gender depending usually, but not always) and get all serious and low-class. Blake Lively, the straight-A beach princess who stars on Gossip Girl, seems to be one of those young actors, as evidenced by her desperate, squirming work in the otherwise believable The Town and now her turn as the weed-addled girlfriend to two pretty California drug dealers in Oliver Stone's Savages. ...

Syrian refugees flood Jordan, straining resources Posted: 05 Jul 2012 09:32 AM PDT For months, Jordan has been struggling with a steady influx of refugees from Syria, but the latest surge in the violence there may have pushed the small desert kingdom's capacity to the breaking point.

Medical Device Company MicroTransponder Presents Positive Tinnitus Clinical Trial Results at Tinnitus Research Institute Conference in Europe Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:57 AM PDT MicroTransponder presents results of 10 patient tinnitus clinical trial at TRI Conference and announces a $2 Million round of angel funding to commercialize device.Dallas, TX (PRWEB) July 05, 2012 MicroTransponder, Inc., (http://www.microtransponder.com) a privately-held medical device company, presented data from the initial 10-patient tinnitus clinical trial during on June 15th at the Tinnitus Research Initiative conference in Belgium. ...

US Military Brainstorms Future Game-Changers Posted: 05 Jul 2012 08:28 AM PDT Have expensive stealth bombers and cheap roadside bombs changed the face of modern warfare? The question of what technologies count as "game-changers" dominated the first of several U.S. military workshops meant to identify the most disruptive science and technology.

Yemen-style power transfer unlikely in Syria: Iraq FM Posted: 05 Jul 2012 07:39 AM PDT Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Thursday that a Yemen-style power transfer was unlikely in Syria because its President Bashar al-Assad would refuse to step down.

UK denies army cuts undermine its military might Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:38 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's defence secretary hit back on Thursday at accusations that cuts to army numbers put the country at risk and reduced its standing as military power, as he outlined a major shake-up of the force's structure. Philip Hammond said Britain's army, whose regular trained members will be cut to 82,000 from 102,000 by 2020 to save money, would still be able to deploy a similar-sized force to that sent to Afghanistan. "Despite what you read in some of your papers, people could be forgiven for thinking that we are nowhere in the military pecking order. ...

UK govt details major army cutbacks Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:23 AM PDT The British government gave details Thursday of major army cuts which will see it lose 20,000 regular soldiers by 2020, taking force levels to their lowest since the early 19th century.

Suicide bomber kills three in northern Iraq: police Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:05 AM PDT MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - At least three people were killed and 15 wounded on Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a barber's shop popular with police in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police and hospital sources said. The attack is the latest and a wave of bombings across the country in recent weeks which have raised fears that Iraq could slip back into sectarian bloodletting of the kind that peaked in 2006-07. Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, is the capital of the mainly Sunni Muslim Neneva province where al Qaeda has been particularly active. ...

Iraq says al-Qaida fighters flowing into Syria Posted: 05 Jul 2012 06:02 AM PDT Iraq's top diplomat on Thursday said he had "solid information" that al-Qaida militants were crossing from Iraq to Syria to carry out attacks, warning of a violent spillover that could shake the Middle East.

Officials: 3 killed in Baghdad house bombing Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:40 AM PDT Police say the house of an Iraqi government official has been bombed and his wife and two daughters have been killed.

Insight: Local wars blur al Qaeda's threat to West Posted: 05 Jul 2012 12:38 AM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden would not have approved. Spinoff groups from al Qaeda have become increasingly engrossed in insurgencies in Africa and the Middle East, inflicting death and mayhem on local communities. But this emphasis on the pursuit of the enemy nearby has cast doubt on their commitment, in practice, to bin Laden's war on the "far enemy" - the West and the United States in particular. More than a year after U.S. forces killed bin Laden, some groups such as the Yemeni-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) undoubtedly remain a menace to the West. ...

WTO to lower entry bar for poorest countries Posted: 04 Jul 2012 11:27 PM PDT GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization has agreed new membership standards for the weakest economies, lowering the bar for countries such as Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Sudan to join the global trading club, according to a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. In the document, which was agreed on June 29 and will be rubber-stamped by the WTO's General Council on July 25-26, the WTO's 155 existing members promise to show restraint in the demands they make on the poorest candidate countries and to allow them flexibility in applying the WTO's rules. ...

Today in History Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:34 PM PDT Today is Thursday, July 5, the 187th day of 2012. There are 179 days left in the year.

Assange charges are 'hilarious': Ecuadoran FM Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:18 PM PDT Ecuador's foreign minister has said that rape and sexual assault cases lodged in Sweden against Julian Assange are laughable, but no ruling has yet been made on the WikiLeaks founder's asylum application.

Australia rescues 162 from asylum seeker boat Posted: 04 Jul 2012 09:15 PM PDT Two Australian navy patrol boats rescued 162 people from an asylum seeker boat in trouble in Indonesian waters and were taking them Thursday to an immigration detention center on a remote Australian island territory.

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