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Associated Press
| 12 months ago
New Zealand says it will withdraw its small contingent of troops from Afghanistan a year earlier than planned. Prime Minister John Key told reporters Tuesday that the 145 New Zealand troops stationed in Bamiyan province will come home in late 2013...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
The bulk of Australia n troops will be out of Afghanistan by 2014 as scheduled but Prime Minister Julia Gillard has assured the Asian nation that her commitment will be sustained further in the form of development aids. Chicago, Ms Gillard said on...
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The Age
| 12 months ago
AFP Ms Gillard detailed Australia's commitment of $300 million funding for the Afghanistan's defence over three years from 2015. Afghanistan after withdrawal and said there would possibly be a need for an ongoing special forces counter terrorism...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
Anti-war protesters staged a peaceful march on the headquarters of US defense contractor Boeing in Chicago on Monday after several days of demonstrations during a meeting of Nato leaders. Between 200 and 300 demonstrators, some throwing paper planes,...
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Newsbusters
| 12 months ago
Violent anti-war protesters clashed with Chicago police this weekend, but the network morning shows on Monday avoided attempts at pinning an ideology on them, simply referring to "anti-war" "protesters." On CBS This Morning , Charlie Rose blandly...
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Muncie Free Press
| 12 months ago
Demonstrations and protests continue in Chicago today, with many people out to voice their opinion. And there are quite a few different messages going out under the loose banner of the Occupy Movement. The Guardian in the UK has a live blog going...
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Truthdig
| 12 months ago
Chicago, at the end of which 50 former soldiers renounced the wars by throwing their military service medals toward the building where leaders were gathered. Democracy Now! captured speeches given by many of those former soldiers and spoke with Scott...
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Democracy Now
| 12 months ago
Chicago. "I feel honored standing next to this veteran because in my opinion they are doing the right thing by speaking out against the occupation and war alongside us." Clumpner says, "I reject any affiliation with this war." [Transcript to come.
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Democracy Now
| 12 months ago
Chicago. "People are here are from around the world searching for alternatives for war," Rev. Jackson says. "Now [the U.S.] seeks to expand a long-term commitment to Afghanistan $2 billion to $4 billion a week while we're laying off transit workers,...
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Democracy Now
| 12 months ago
It spend $1 trillion a year we need this money for jobs, healthcare, education." [Transcript to come.
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Good morning and welcome to our live blog coverage of day two of the Nato summit in Chicago and the anti-Nato protests in the streets. Tom McCarthy here in New York; my colleagues Ewen MacAskill and Adam Gabbatt are in Chicago. Here's a summary of...
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The independent
| 12 months ago
As Elizabeth Potts and Tim Alberts stepped out of the church in which they'd just married, one imagines the last thing they'd have expected was for their big day to be hijacked by Occupy Chicago protesters. But after exchanging their vows, the...
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Al Jazeera English
| 12 months ago
Dozens arrested and reports of injuries as anti-war demonstrators rally on fringes of world leaders' meeting in Chicago...The two sides were locked in a standoff for nearly two hours, with the police blocking the protesters' path and the crowd...
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CNN Blog
| 12 months ago
Occupy Chicago, one of the groups that helped organize the demonstrations, took to social media to urge people to join in another planned demonstration at 10 a.m...Dozens were injured in a melee Sunday that came at the end of a largely, peaceful...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
protesters clash with police in Chicago video Peaceful anti-war demonstrations turn violent in Chicago when masked demonstrators charge towards the police line. US war veterans led the demonstrations and some threw away their medals to symbolise...
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CNN Blog
| 12 months ago
President Barack Obama's exit strategy from Afghanistan that calls for an end to combat operations next year and the withdrawal of troops by the end of 2014. Chicago to sketch out the end of an unpopular war and figure out how to pay for shoring up...
