IS conflict: Petraeus urges Iraq to use politics to win By Jonathan Marcus Diplomatic correspondent

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32950900

US surveillance powers to expire as Senate deal fails

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32955048

May 31, 7:05 AM EDT GIANT CROSS RISES IN PAKISTAN, HOME TO A CHRISTIAN MINORITY

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_PAKISTAN_CROSS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-31-07-05-15

May 31, 1:50 PM EDT BLAST INJURES 4 IN NIGERIAN CITY, DAY AFTER ATTACKS KILL 30

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_BOKO_HARAM?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-31-13-50-22

May 31, 1:54 AM EDT HOLIDAY IN SOCIALIST FAIRYLAND? NORTH KOREA WOOS TOURISTS

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_NKOREA_WOOING_TOURISTS_?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-31-01-54-22

May 31, 10:20 PM EDT KERRY BREAKS LEG IN BICYCLE CRASH; RETURNING TO US MONDAY

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_KERRY_BIKE_CRASH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-31-22-20-47

A drug war made in Mexico? US drug policy has spelt nothing but trouble for Mexico. 28 May 2015 08:00 GMT |

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/05/drug-war-mexico-150527045210132.html

North Korean hackers 'could kill', warns key defector By Dave Lee and Nick Kwek BBC News 29 May 2015 From the section Technology

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32925495

Myanmar refuses sole blame for Asia migrant crisis

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32925815

May 29, 2:09 AM EDT RUSSIA STEPS UP PROPAGANDA PUSH WITH ONLINE "KREMLIN TROLLS"

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_RUSSIA_KREMLIN_PROPAGANDA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-29-02-09-43

May 29, 2:55 AM EDT CIVILIANS BIGGEST LOSERS ON AFGHAN WAR'S NEW NORTHERN FRONT

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_AFGHANISTAN_VICTIMS_OF_WAR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-29-02-55-27

The two-state solution is dead Just ask Israel's own ministers. 27 May 2015 09:56 GMT | Politics, Middle East, Israel, Palestine

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32906836

'New species' of ancient human found By Rebecca Morelle Science Correspondent, BBC News 8 hours ago

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32906836

Malaysia investigates police over links to mass graves

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32911023

May 28, 4:05 AM EDT SYRIA'S AL-QAIDA CHIEF SAYS NO PLANS TO ATTACK THE WEST

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_SYRIA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-28-04-05-22

May 27, 2:24 PM EDT SAUDI-LED AIRSTRIKES ON POLICE HEADQUARTERS KILL 45 IN YEMEN

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_YEMEN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-27-14-24-59

May 27, 6:16 PM EDT ANALYSIS: AGAINST IS, AIRSTRIKES MAY NOT SUFFICE

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_LIMITS_OF_AIRSTRIKES_ANALYSIS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-27-18-16-39

Israeli planes strike Gaza after rocket lands in Ashdod Qassam Brigades, military wing of Hamas, says experimental rocket mistakenly fell on Israeli city instead of the sea. 27 May 2015 08:21 GMT |

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/05/rocket-gaza-lands-southern-israel-150526190055947.html

May 27, 3:38 AM EDT VIDEO EXPOSES DIVISIONS AMONG IRAN LAWMAKERS OVER NUKE TALKS

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_NUCLEAR_TALKS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-27-03-38-12

May 27, 3:23 AM EDT GROUP: HAMAS TORTURED, KILLED PALESTINIANS IN 2014 GAZA WAR BY IAN DEITCH

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_RIGHTS_GROUP_HAMAS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-27-03-23-25

May 27, 1:48 AM EDT 4 TALIBAN MILITANTS DIE IN ATTACK IN AFGHAN CAPITAL

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_AFGHANISTAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-27-01-48-32

May 27, 4:45 AM EDT MULTIPLE IS SUICIDE ATTACKS IN IRAQ'S ANBAR KILL 17 TROOPS

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISLAMIC_STATE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-27-04-45-43

Al-Shabab claims to have killed Kenyan police officers Group says 25 officers died in attacks in Garissa county, but Kenya's interior ministry says no police officer killed. 26 May 2015 09:28 GMT |

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/05/al-shabab-claims-killed-kenyan-police-officers-150526065046233.html

Chinese navy to focus on 'open seas', paper says

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-32880477

May 26, 2:22 AM EDT AFGHAN FORCES STRUGGLE AS TALIBAN SEEKS NORTHERN STRONGHOLD

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_AFGHANISTAN_NORTHERN_OFFENSIVE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-26-02-22-32

May 26, 4:20 AM EDT IRAN BEGINS TRIAL OF DETAINED WASHINGTON POST REPORTER

May 26, 3:07 AM EDT FOR AN IS FIGHTER, A PAID HONEYMOON IN CALIPHATE'S HEART

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_INSIDE_THE_CALIPHATE_HONEYMOON_IN_RAQQA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-26-03-07-27

May 26, 3:56 AM EDT IRAQ ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF OPERATION TO DRIVE IS FROM ANBAR

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISLAMIC_STATE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-26-03-56-22

Russia begins massive air force exercise 5 hours ago

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32877936

May 25, 2:23 PM EDT YEMENI POLITICIANS SAY UN PEACE TALKS INDEFINITELY POSTPONED

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_YEMEN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-25-14-23-46

May 25, 3:06 PM EDT AFGHAN OFFICIAL: 19 POLICE, 7 SOLDIERS DEAD IN ONGOING SIEGE

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_AFGHANISTAN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-25-15-06-51

05/24/2015 @ 6:32PM 32,837 views Memorial Day, 3pm. Don't Forget.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/causeintegration/2015/05/24/memorial-day-3pm-dont-forget/

World | Mon May 25, 2015 6:20am EDT Related: WORLD Islamic State faces battle in Iraq, bombs in Syria BAGHDAD/BEIRUT

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/25/us-mideast-crisis-idUSKBN0OA0MR20150525

The scramble for the South China Sea As China tries to outmuscle its neighbours, we ask who will win the battle over the resource-rich waters. 23 May 2015 14:30 GMT

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/countingthecost/2015/05/scramble-south-china-sea-150522111011004.html

IS threat to Syria's northern bald ibis near Palmyra

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32872350

Nasrallah: Hezbollah to increase presence in Syria Leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah says his group is engaged in an existential battle against ISIL across all of Syria. 24 May 2015 23:57 GMT

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/05/nasrallah-hezbollah-increase-presence-syria-150524233716453.html

Iraq PM Haider al-Abadi confident of Ramadi recapture

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32872120

May 24, 7:02 AM EDT MALAYSIA FINDS GRAVES OF SUSPECTED TRAFFICKING VICTIMS

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_ROHINGYA_BOAT_PEOPLE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-24-07-02-52

May 24, 6:05 PM EDT NEW PARTIES SHAKE SPAIN'S POLITICAL SYSTEM IN LOCAL VOTE

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SPAIN_ELECTIONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-24-18-05-40

May 24, 10:36 AM EDT IRAQI LAWMAKER SLAMS US CRITICISM OF IRAQI MILITARY

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAQ?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-24-10-36-34

May 24, 11:14 AM EDT OFFICIAL: SYRIAN ARMY PREPARING FOR COUNTERATTACK ON IS

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISLAMIC_STATE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-05-24-11-14-46

I Was A Police Officer (a moment of thought)

I was a police officer

We are letting a band of people who have no interest in making America strong destroy the very people who keep us strong.

I was a police officer                               

Today, I will not answer the radio call that your boyfriend has come home drunk and is beating you again.

                                  

Today, I will not answer the radio call that your 16 year old daughter, who is very responsible, is four hours late coming home from school.

                                  

Today, I will not answer the radio call that your store has been robbed or your house has been burglarized.

                                  

Today, I will not stop a drunk driver from killing someone. I will not catch a rapist or a murderer or a car thief.

                                  

Today, I will not answer the radio call that a man has a gun or tried to abduct a child or that someone has been stabbed or has been in a terrible accident.

                                  

Today, I will not save your child that you locked in a car or the child you were too busy to watch who went outside and fell into the swimming pool, but that I revived.

                                  

No, today I will not do that.

                                  

Why?

                                  

Today, I was suspended from duty for doing my job, because the media, liberals, a community organizer, a lawyer who formally represented terrorists and is the US attorney general and a mayor who ran on an anti-police agenda, who are all advised by a drug dealer, liar and income tax cheat. AND, all who know nothing about Policing, have vilified my profession.

                                  

Because ----

                                  

Today, I was killed by a drunk driver while I was helping push a disabled car off the highway.

                                  

Today, I was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop to simply tell someone that they had a taillight out.

                                  

Today, I was killed in a traffic accident rushing to help a citizen.

                                  

Today, I was shot and killed serving a warrant on a known drug dealer.

                                  

Today, I was killed by a man when I came by to do a welfare check because his family was too busy.

                                  

Today, I was killed trying to stop a bank robbery or a grocery store robbery.

                                  

Today I was killed doing my job.                                  

A chaplain and an officer will go to a house and tell a mom and dad or a wife or husband or a child that their son or daughter or husband or wife or father or mother won't be coming home today.

                                  

The flags at many police stations were flown at half-mast today but most people won't know why.

                                  

There will be a funeral and my fellow officers will come, a twenty-one-gun salute will be given, and taps and bagpipes will be played as I am laid to rest.

                                  

My name will be put on a plaque, on a wall, in a building, in a city somewhere.

                                  

A folded flag will be placed on a mantel or a bookcase in a home somewhere and a family will mourn.

                                  

There will be no cries for justice.

There will be no riots in the streets.

There will be no officers marching, screaming 'no justice, no peace.'

No citizens will scream that something must be done.

No windows will be smashed, no cars burned, no stones thrown, no names called.

Only someone crying themselves to sleep tonight will be the only sign that I was cared about.

                              

I was a police officer

Ukraine crisis: Kiev prisoners 'admit to being in Russian army'

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32840502

Islamic State 'seizes last Syria-Iraq border crossing'

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32840508