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Kurdish militant leader signals Turkish prisoners may be freed
NY subject of prizewinning photo questions ethics
It's personal and business in GOP fight over Hagel
Iraq president's health improving, can now talk: doctor
Four Somali immigrants to US convicted of supporting militants
Memoir from New Author Captures the Turmoil of a Nation Gripped by War and a Young Man’s Search for Inner and Outer Peace
Four Somali immigrants convicted of supporting militants
Past Political Oscar Wins

Kurdish militant leader signals Turkish prisoners may be freed

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:54 PM PST

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The jailed leader of Turkey's Kurdish rebellion on Saturday signaled that his followers could release captives and further a fledgling peace process that may be the best hope in years of ending the decades-long conflict. The call by Abdullah Ocalan, the head of the autonomy-seeking Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), came after a rare meeting with members of parliament's only pro-Kurdish party at his prison on an island in the Sea of Marmara south of Istanbul. ...

NY subject of prizewinning photo questions ethics

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 09:47 AM PST

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A man depicted in a prizewinning photography series about violence in the upstate New York city of Rochester says the essay misrepresented who he was, where he was and what he was doing at the time his picture was taken.

It's personal and business in GOP fight over Hagel

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 06:04 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fierce Republican opposition to President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary is personal and business.

Iraq president's health improving, can now talk: doctor

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:34 AM PST

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is now able to talk, his doctor said, adding he was hopeful the Kurdish statesman would soon be fit to return to Iraq from Germany, where he has been receiving medical treatment for a stroke. A peace-maker who often mediated among Iraq's Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish factions, 79-year-old Talabani was flown abroad in December in critical condition. "I am in continuous contact with the German team treating President Talabani," said Najmaldin Karim, who is also governor of the city of Kirkuk. ...

Four Somali immigrants to US convicted of supporting militants

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:32 AM PST

(Reuters) - Four Somali immigrants, including a popular imam at a San Diego-area mosque, were convicted by a U.S. federal jury on Friday of conspiring to provide material support to an al Qaeda-linked Islamist militia in the Horn of Africa nation. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California said that the men - the imam, two cab drivers and an employee at a money transmitting business - had conspired to raise and send money to Somali al Shabaab rebels. ...

Memoir from New Author Captures the Turmoil of a Nation Gripped by War and a Young Man’s Search for Inner and Outer Peace

Posted: 23 Feb 2013 12:10 AM PST

"The Struggle Within: Protesting the Iraq War" to be released to mark the Iraq War's 10th anniversary.Aurora, CO (PRWEB) February 23, 2013 Coinciding with the Iraq war's 10th anniversary, the book, "The Struggle Within: Protesting the Iraq War" by John Dickson, adds to the reflection and debate on the war the anniversary brings through its story of a young man enduring a soul-searching journey, trying to stop the war before and after it began. ...

Four Somali immigrants convicted of supporting militants

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 08:37 PM PST

Past Political Oscar Wins

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 01:24 PM PST

From Hurt Locker to Mr. Smith Goes to Washington