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US escalates conflict with Russia and China at Syria summit

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sits next to British foreign minister William Hague, left, at the start of the Conference on Syria in Tunis, Tunisia, Friday Feb. 24, 2012. The birthplace of the Arab Spring is hosting a landmark conference on Syria by high-level U.S., European, Turkish and Arab League officials. (AP Photo/Hassene […]

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US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sits next to British foreign minister William Hague, left, at the start of the Conference on Syria in Tunis, Tunisia, Friday Feb. 24, 2012. The birthplace of the Arab Spring is hosting a landmark conference on Syria by high-level U.S., European, Turkish and Arab League officials. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)

(NEW YORK) MintPress -- Friday’s “Friends of Syria” summit in Tunis was the first major international gathering there since the overthrow of President Ben Ali last year. The question is, will it  be the tipping point for some action on Syria? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she expected concrete progress in getting humanitarian

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21st Century Continental Congress a Dividing Issue Among Occupy Protesters

A Occupy Wall Street volunteer hands out printed copies of the Declaration of Occupy New York (Photo by Palinopsia Films) (MintPress)–The 99% Declaration Working Group, a branch-off group from the Occupy movement, will host a 21st century Continental Congress this summer to prepare and ratify a petition for a redress of grievances to address the […]

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A Occupy Wall Street volunteer hands out printed copies of the Declaration of Occupy New York (Photo by Palinopsia Films)

(MintPress)--The 99% Declaration Working Group, a branch-off group from the Occupy movement, will host a 21st century Continental Congress this summer to prepare and ratify a petition for a redress of grievances to address the issues of economic greed and corruption at the core of the Occupy protests that began in September. The announcement of

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Corporations battle human rights groups in Supreme Court

In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, Nigerian-born Charles Wiwa, 44, poses for a portrait in Chicago. Wiwa fled Nigeria in 1996 following a crackdown on protests against ShellÌs oil operations in the Niger Delta. He and other natives of the oil-rich Ogoni region claim Shell was eager to stop protests in the area […]

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In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, Nigerian-born Charles Wiwa, 44, poses for a portrait in Chicago. Wiwa fled Nigeria in 1996 following a crackdown on protests against ShellÌs oil operations in the Niger Delta. He and other natives of the oil-rich Ogoni region claim Shell was eager to stop protests in the area and was complicit in Nigerian government actions that included fatal shootings, rapes, beatings, arrests and property destruction. U.S. Supreme Court justices will hear arguments Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, over the reach of the Alien Tort Statute and a 20-year-old law that allows victims of torture to pursue civil lawsuits against the responsible individuals. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Corporations and human rights groups are squaring off in a Supreme Court fight over whether foreign victims of war crimes, killings and other atrocities can haul multinational companies into American courts and try to prove they were complicit in the abuses and should pay damages. The rights groups say a 223-year-old law gives

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Jury: White supremacist guilty in Arizona bombing

FILE – In this July 16, 1997 file photo, Dennis Mahon, a white supremacist from Tulsa, Okla., talks to the media in Oklahoma City, Ok., before appearing before an Oklahoma County grand jury investigating the Oklahoma City bombing. Closing arguments began Tuesday morning, Feb. 21, 2012 in a federal trial in Arizona, where Mahon and […]

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FILE - In this July 16, 1997 file photo, Dennis Mahon, a white supremacist from Tulsa, Okla., talks to the media in Oklahoma City, Ok., before appearing before an Oklahoma County grand jury investigating the Oklahoma City bombing. Closing arguments began Tuesday morning, Feb. 21, 2012 in a federal trial in Arizona, where Mahon and his brother Don stand accused of bombing a Scottsdale city official. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter, File)

PHOENIX (AP) — A white supremacist was convicted in a 2004 bombing that injured a black city official in suburban Phoenix, but his identical twin brother was acquitted. The federal jury Friday stopped short of finding Dennis Mahon guilty of a hate crime. The 61-year-old twins from Illinois were on trial for six weeks as dramatic testimony

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Pressure builds for domestic drone use

ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, FEB. 27, 2012 AND THEREAFTER – This undated photo provided by the Mesa County, Colo. Sheriff's Department, Deputy Amanda Hill of the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado prepares to use a Draganflyer X6 drone equipped with a video camera to help search for a suspect in a knife attack in Mesa […]

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This undated photo provided by the Mesa County, Colo. Sheriff's Department, Deputy Amanda Hill of the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado prepares to use a Draganflyer X6 drone equipped with a video camera to help search for a suspect in a knife attack in Mesa County, Colo. (AP Photo/Mesa County Sheriff's Unmanned Operations Team)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Heads up: Drones are going mainstream. Civilian cousins of the unmanned military aircraft that have tracked and killed terrorists in the Middle East and Asia are in demand by police departments, border patrols, power companies, news organizations and others wanting a bird's-eye view that's too impractical or dangerous for

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FBI convicts hundreds, orders billions in restitution for financial crimes in 2011

Photo by Octavio Ruiz Cervera WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says its probes of corporate criminals led to 241 convictions and $2.4 billion in restitution for financial victims last year as agents went after insider trading and other investment crime that defrauded thousands. For other types of financial crime, the bureau said Monday that it […]

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Photo by Octavio Ruiz Cervera

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says its probes of corporate criminals led to 241 convictions and $2.4 billion in restitution for financial victims last year as agents went after insider trading and other investment crime that defrauded thousands. For other types of financial crime, the bureau said Monday that it obtained 1,082 convictions and $1.38

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