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Torches Lit, Ukrainian Nationalists Celebrate An Inconvenient Hero

BY Hanna Kozlowska
JANUARY 3, 2014 - 04:43 PM

The pro-Western protests on Kiev's Independence Square turned into a New Year's celebration on Tuesday, transforming the world's biggest ongoing protest into a huge party. But after some 200,000 people looked hopefully to...

The Volgograd Attacks: Taking the Long View
January 4, 2014
Nikolas K. Gvosdev [2]
http://nationalinterest.org/print/commentary/the-volgograd-attacks-taking-the-longview-9666

So far, there have been no follow-ups to the terrorist attacks in Volgograd [3]. (Reports of an explosive device being hurled at police in a Moscow suburb which...

Qaeda-Aligned Militants Threaten Key Iraqi Cities
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/03/w....html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0&pagewanted=all

By YASIR GHAZI and TIM ARANGO
Published: January 2, 2014 468 Comments

BAGHDAD — Radical Sunni militants aligned with Al Qaeda threatened Thursday to seize...

January 4, 2014
Bill Nye to Debate Creation Museum Founder
By Dylan Lovan
http://www.realclearscience.com/art...to_debate_creation_museum_founder_108432.html

Bill Nye "The Science Guy" is set to visit Kentucky to debate evolution and biblical creation with the founder of the Creation Museum.

Ken Ham wrote on his...

Facebook faces suit over private messages
By Charles Riley @CRrileyCNN January 3, 2014: 6:45 AM ET

http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/03/technology/facebook-privacy-lawsuit/index.html?iid=Lead
Facebook is facing a class action over its private messaging function.

HONG KONG (CNNMoney)
Two Facebook users are taking the company to court over...