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U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the U.S. military is accelerating its training and advising mission in Iraq as forces there continue to battle Islamic State militants.

A group of Tawerghan men displaced after the fighting in Libya in 2011. UNHCR is concerned about the situation of some 2,500 Tawerghans who fled their camp in Benghazi in mid-October 2014 to escape fighting.

In an interview with the Nov. 9 Bonn General-Anzeiger, former West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who was in that position 25 years ago, when the Berlin Wall came down, exposed the imperialist outlook on which NATO’s currently escalating confrontation course with Russia is based.

Children from Cape Town, South Africa in the 1980s, when inter-racial marriage was illegal in the country

In what one Washington insider characterized as a “political impeachment,” President Barack Obama suffered a stinging repudiation in the Nov. 4 mid-term elections, taking the Democratic Party down along with him. A sea-change in U.S. politics has occurred in which, implicitly, Obama is finished. The problem is that until he is actually out of power, and new policies of economic recovery and international cooperation are put in place, the world economy—and potentially the world’s existence—are on the verge of being finished as well.

With the global economy struggling with an uneven recovery, we welcome G20 Leaders’ commitment to raising growth and delivering quality jobs.

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has announced a new effort focused on keeping and extending American military superiority.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at press conference in Brisbane, Australia for G-20 Summit 2014. Also pictured UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.