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• Judge: JetBlue pilot suffered a psychotic episode in prison
• Doubts arise about replacing Annan as Syria war worsens
• Dr. Paul Harch M.D. Scheduled to Speak at the 8th International Symposium for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and the Recoverable Brain
• White House official says Syria no-fly zone not off table
• ShelterBox Responds to Syria Refugee Crisis
• Troops win over spectators at Olympic venues
• Syrian refugee camps swell as frustrations rise
• UK troops win over spectators at Olympic venues
• Olympics-UK troops win over spectators at Olympic venues
• Iraq attacks on Shiites and lawyers kill 21
• Iraq's Kurdish region resumes crude oil pumping
• Analysis: Doubts arise about replacing Annan as Syria war worsens
• US-Vietnam Agent Orange clean-up sets a model
• Oil flow from Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline to resume: minister
• Religiosity slides worldwide, plummets in scandal-hit Ireland
• Still raw wounds greet US medics in Iraq's Fallujah
• 'Hunger Games' Star Elizabeth Banks Talks 'Heavy Flow' in Pro-Obama Ad
• Violence still problem despite Libya's peaceful power handover
• US plans post-Assad future
• Benjamin S. Gonzalez, MD Releases Position Paper on Benefits of hCG Protocol for Weight Loss
• Oil slips to around $93 ahead of US supply data
• Analysis: Syria border standoff a new front in Iraq-Kurdish rift
• Military Veterans Flourish in Tough Economy According to TroopSwap.com Review
• Global Defense Robotics Market to Reach US$7.5 Billion by 2018, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
• Insight: Syria rebels see future fight with foreign radicals
• Gunmen kill 8 members of family in northern Iraq
• Oil prices hover above $93 a barrel in Asia
• US seeks smooth but unlikely transition in Syria
• Today in History
• Company formerly called Blackwater to pay sanctions fine
• In scenarios for a post-Assad Syria, fear of chaos

Judge: JetBlue pilot suffered a psychotic episode in prison Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:01 PM PDT SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A JetBlue pilot whose bizarre behavior forced an emergency landing in March has suffered a psychotic episode in prison, and more time is needed to assess his mental state before he can be sentenced, a federal judge in Texas said on Wednesday. Pilot Clayton Osbon, who had been charged with interference with a flight crew and could have faced up to 20 years in prison, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in July. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson ruled that a court-ordered evaluation of Osbon, which was to have been completed this week, be extended until October 15. ...

Doubts arise about replacing Annan as Syria war worsens Posted: 08 Aug 2012 03:20 PM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - As Syria spirals deeper into a full-scale civil war, Western delegations at the United Nations are increasingly skeptical about the value of appointing a replacement for Kofi Annan as the U.N.-Arab League mediator in the conflict, U.N. envoys say. When he announced his departure, Annan, a former U.N. secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said he was not able to carry out his job with the U.N. Security Council's veto powers hopelessly deadlocked. ...

Dr. Paul Harch M.D. Scheduled to Speak at the 8th International Symposium for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and the Recoverable Brain Posted: 08 Aug 2012 03:02 PM PDT Dr. Paul Harch will be at the Westin in Long Beach, California August 10-12, 2012 speaking at the International Symposium for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.Long Beach CA (PRWEB) August 08, 2012 Dr. Paul G. Harch, MD and medical professionals nationwide will gather at the Long Beach, Westin Hotel Aug 10-12, for "HBOT2012", an educational symposium on hyperbaric oxygen therapy of world-wide medical significance.The event will focus on the expanding applications of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). ...

White House official says Syria no-fly zone not off table Posted: 08 Aug 2012 02:51 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior aide to President Barack Obama did not rule out on Wednesday the eventual creation of a no-fly zone over a patch of Syria that increasingly appears to be controlled by anti-government rebels. Some Republican critics of Obama's handling of the Syria crisis have been advocating international enforcement of a no-fly zone to prevent Syrian warplanes from operating over designated zones, as well as more directly arming the opposition forces fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. ...

ShelterBox Responds to Syria Refugee Crisis Posted: 08 Aug 2012 02:34 PM PDT Ongoing violence in Syria over the past 15 months has caused a significant number of refugees to flee across the border to neighboring countries, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq.Lakewood Ranch, FL (PRWEB) August 08, 2012 Ongoing violence in Syria over the past 15 months has caused a significant number of refugees to flee across the border to neighboring countries, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq. ...

Troops win over spectators at Olympic venues Posted: 08 Aug 2012 02:27 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Better known for their role in global conflicts and emergencies, the British military is now being acclaimed for defusing a crisis closer to home after stepping in to help guard the Olympic Games. While competing athletes may have wowed the crowds at Olympic venues, the soldiers, sailors and airmen of Britain's armed forces have won over spectators with their smiles, cheeky quips and friendly banter. ...

Syrian refugee camps swell as frustrations rise Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:28 PM PDT His two-story house with a garden became a military post when government forces moved into his village in northeastern Syria. More than a year has passed for Amin Idlibi and his family, now sharing a crowded tent in a Turkish refugee camp, and the limbo of more than 250,000 others who have fled Syria's civil war into neighboring countries.

UK troops win over spectators at Olympic venues Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:02 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Better known for their role in global conflicts and emergencies, the British military is now being acclaimed for defusing a crisis closer to home after stepping in to help guard the Olympic Games. While competing athletes may have wowed the crowds at Olympic venues, the soldiers, sailors and airmen of Britain's armed forces have won over spectators with their smiles, cheeky quips and friendly banter. ...

Olympics-UK troops win over spectators at Olympic venues Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:55 PM PDT * Thousands of British armed forces securing Olympics * Number boosted due to security guard shortfall * Troop performance praised by officials and public LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Better known for their role inglobal conflicts and emergencies, the British military is nowbeing acclaimed for defusing a crisis closer to home afterstepping in to help guard the Olympic Games. While competing athletes may have wowed the crowds atOlympic venues, the soldiers, sailors and airmen of Britain'sarmed forces have won over spectators with their smiles, cheekyquips and friendly banter. ...

Iraq attacks on Shiites and lawyers kill 21 Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:29 PM PDT A car bomb targeting Shiite Muslims in Iraq and the shooting of a lawyer and his family left 21 people dead on Wednesday, after Al-Qaeda warned it would target lawyers and retake territory in a new campaign.

Iraq's Kurdish region resumes crude oil pumping Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:17 PM PDT Iraq's self-ruled northern Kurdish region has resumed pumping crude oil earmarked for export through the central government's pipeline after halting it for four months over a payment dispute.

Analysis: Doubts arise about replacing Annan as Syria war worsens Posted: 08 Aug 2012 11:59 AM PDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - As Syria spirals deeper into a full-scale civil war, Western delegations at the United Nations are increasingly skeptical about the value of appointing a replacement for Kofi Annan as the U.N.-Arab League mediator in the conflict, U.N. envoys say. When he announced his departure, Annan, a former U.N. secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said he was not able to carry out his job with the U.N. Security Council's veto powers hopelessly deadlocked. ...

US-Vietnam Agent Orange clean-up sets a model Posted: 08 Aug 2012 11:17 AM PDT For the first time since the end of the Vietnam War, the United States will start to clean up the herbicide Agent Orange used to defoliate forests during that guerrilla conflict.

Oil flow from Iraq-Turkey oil pipeline to resume: minister Posted: 08 Aug 2012 10:53 AM PDT The oil flow from the Turkish-Iraqi pipeline will resume Wednesday following a blast that damaged the pipeline, Turkey's energy minister said.

Religiosity slides worldwide, plummets in scandal-hit Ireland Posted: 08 Aug 2012 10:41 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - Traditionally Catholic Ireland has registered almost the steepest drop worldwide in people calling themselves religious in a new survey tracking international trends in faith and atheism in recent years. Only 47 percent of Irish polled said they were religious people, a 22-point drop from the 69 percent recorded in the last similar poll in 2005, according to the WIN-Gallup International network of opinion pollsters. Average religiosity in the 57 countries included in the poll was 59 percent, a decline of 9 points since 2005, it said. ...

Still raw wounds greet US medics in Iraq's Fallujah Posted: 08 Aug 2012 10:05 AM PDT In an Iraqi city where US military offensives levelled entire neighbourhoods in 2004, a hospital has turned to American doctors to treat children with heart problems that residents blame on fallout from the fighting.

'Hunger Games' Star Elizabeth Banks Talks 'Heavy Flow' in Pro-Obama Ad Posted: 08 Aug 2012 07:39 AM PDT 'Hunger Games' Star Is Latest Celeb To Support Obama With Campaign Ad

Violence still problem despite Libya's peaceful power handover Posted: 08 Aug 2012 07:31 AM PDT TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Getting a grip on security in an often anarchic post-Gaddafi Libya will be the priority for the country's new ruling assembly when it starts life on Wednesday, the deputy prime minister says. The National Transitional Council, political arm of the opposition forces that toppled Gaddafi a year ago, will hand over power to a national assembly elected in July in a late night ceremony. It will be the first peaceful transition of power in Libya's modern history but is overshadowed by several violent incidents in the past week that have shown the country's precarious stability. ...

US plans post-Assad future Posted: 08 Aug 2012 07:09 AM PDT As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad wages a blood-drenched campaign for survival, Washington is stepping up plans for the day after he falls, colored by costly lessons of Iraq's implosion in 2003.

Benjamin S. Gonzalez, MD Releases Position Paper on Benefits of hCG Protocol for Weight Loss Posted: 08 Aug 2012 07:06 AM PDT This position paper discusses the benefits of the controversial hCG Protocol for Weight Loss, first instituted by British endocrinologist, Dr. A.T.W. Simeons in the 1950s, which uses the hCG hormone (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin) present in pregnant women to facilitate weight loss.Silver Spring, MD (PRWEB) August 08, 2012 Benjamin S. Gonzalez, MD, a board-certified physician and primary care practitioner, announced today the release of his position paper, "hCG Protocol for Healthy and Safe Weight Loss: A Position Paper by Benjamin Gonzalez, MD. ...

Oil slips to around $93 ahead of US supply data Posted: 08 Aug 2012 05:07 AM PDT The price of oil slipped to near $93 a barrel Wednesday as investors awaited confirmation of another drop in U.S. crude supplies and kept an eye on supply disruptions.

Analysis: Syria border standoff a new front in Iraq-Kurdish rift Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:26 AM PDT KALE, Iraq (Reuters) - Beneath the green, white and red Kurdistan flag, Kurdish Peshmerga troops keep watch from hastily built earthen barricades on soldiers of the Iraqi national army dug in less than a kilometer away along a desolate stretch of road. The standoff, for a moment last week so close to confrontation, is the most dramatic illustration of a growing rift between Baghdad and the autonomous northern region of Kurdistan. Frictions over oil revenues are exacerbated now by conflicting views of the Syrian rebellion and by territorial disputes that pose questions about the unity of Iraq. ...

Military Veterans Flourish in Tough Economy According to TroopSwap.com Review Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:05 AM PDT Veterans' Median Income and Employment Rate Higher Relative to Non-Veteran PopulationWashington, DC (PRWEB) August 08, 2012 While younger veterans suffer from disproportionately high unemployment rates, the overall veteran population is flourishing. According to a July 2012 report released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, veterans enjoy a substantially lower rate of unemployment at 6.9% versus the national unemployment rate at 8.3%. ...

Global Defense Robotics Market to Reach US$7.5 Billion by 2018, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc. Posted: 08 Aug 2012 04:04 AM PDT GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Defense Robotics markets. The global market for Defense Robotics is forecast to reach US$7.5 billion by the year 2018, propelled by rapid technological developments and imminent benefits on the warfront. Increased Government spending, technological maturity, and enhanced cost-benefit ratio of the unmanned systems are the major growth drivers for this vibrant sector. In the future, robots will increasingly replace humans on combat ground in all branches of the military, significantly lowering casualties and altering field strategies. ...

Insight: Syria rebels see future fight with foreign radicals Posted: 08 Aug 2012 02:05 AM PDT ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - Abu Bakr, a Syrian rebel commander on the outskirts of Aleppo, is a devoted Islamist determined to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. But the radical allies that have joined the rebels in recent months alarm even him. "Let me be clear. I am an Islamist, my fighters are Islamists. But there is more than one type of Islamist," he told Reuters. "These men coming fought in insurgencies like Iraq. They are too extreme, they want to blow up any symbol of the state, even schools. ...

Gunmen kill 8 members of family in northern Iraq Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:56 AM PDT Iraqi officials say gunmen have shot dead eight members of a family inside their house north of Baghdad.

Oil prices hover above $93 a barrel in Asia Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:53 AM PDT Oil hovered above $93 a barrel Wednesday in Asia as concerns about supply disruptions supported a two-month, 21 percent rally.

US seeks smooth but unlikely transition in Syria Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:41 AM PDT The Obama administration's principles for a post-Assad Syria are clear: security, sectarian harmony, no tolerance for extremists.

Today in History Posted: 07 Aug 2012 09:01 PM PDT Today is Wednesday, Aug. 8, the 221st day of 2012. There are 145 days left in the year.

Company formerly called Blackwater to pay sanctions fine Posted: 07 Aug 2012 06:01 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The military contractor formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide agreed to pay a fine of $5 million to $7.5 million for trying to operate in Sudan in violation of trade sanctions and for other arms-trade breaches, according to documents unsealed on Tuesday. The deal includes an acknowledgement of the conduct by the company, now under new ownership and known as Academi LLC. Known for helping to protect U.S. government employees abroad, the company drew harsh international scrutiny for shootings and other conduct in Iraq. ...

In scenarios for a post-Assad Syria, fear of chaos Posted: 07 Aug 2012 02:35 PM PDT Standing just a few strides from the Syrian border, an Iraqi was mingling with Syrian rebel units outside their camp here, trying to find one that would take him in and let him fight in the uprising.

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