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Meet the runner with no country
By Mick Krever
(CNN) - More than 10,000 athletes are competing in the London Olympics, each representing a country. All, that is, except four.
One of the so-called “Independent Olympic Athletes” is Marathon runner Guor Marial. His country of South Sudan is so new – just over one year – that it doesn’t yet have an Olympic team.
It is safe to say that no one has had to overcome more hardship en route to the Olympic Games.
At age seven, he left his home and was forced to work for Sudanese soldiers, earning just a dollar per month.
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Give a child a camera and save the world
(CNN) - The eyes of a child see things differently than an adult. It's an idea that intrigued four young women in college. "If you could give a child a camera, they could tell a reality in a way that a foreigner, or even an adult, could not," co-founder Angela Francine Bullock says. Several years later, they turned that idea into a way to help children around the world and founded the nonprofit 100cameras.
The concept is simple. 100cameras staff members travel to countries armed with cameras. They partner with a local organization serving children in the community. For the next few weeks, they teach the children how to take photographs. Then they set those children free to capture their world and post the photos online. <<FULL STORY>>
Analysis: Why gun controls are off the agenda in America
By Jonathan Mann, CNN
What is it about Americans and guns?
How much time do you have?
"I can tell you that I don't think there's any other developed country in the world that has remotely the problem we have," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said after the shooting rampage in Colorado.
There are an estimated 270 million guns in the hands of civilians in the United States, making Americans the most heavily armed people in the world per capita. Yemen, a tribal nation with no history of strong central government or the rule of law, comes in a distant second. << FULL POST >>
Running from Sudan... to the London Olympics
Monday, Christiane Amanpour speaks Guor Marial, an athlete from the world’s newest country, South Sudan. The marathon runner was just seven years old when he was kidnapped and enslaved during the country’s civil war—a battle which took the lives of near 2 million people, including 28 members of his own family.In a daring escape, Marial ran away from his captors and sought refuge in the U.S. Next week he’ll be running in the Olympics. Not a citizen of the U.S. or South Sudan, Marial will be running as an independent in London. The full interview airs Monday at 2100 & 2300 CET, but you can watch a preview of the conversation about Marial's amazing story in the video above.
The changing mission of U.N. in Syria
Hervé Ladsou, the U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, discusses the change in status of the U.N. Observer Mission in Syria.
Courting the Jewish vote
Even though the majority of the Jewish vote in the U.S. goes for Democrats, former White House Spokesman Ari Fleischer tells Christiane Amanpour about his efforts to court the Jewish vote for Republicans. He believes one place Republicans can make major inroads is with American Jewish expatriates living in Israel.
The return of al Qaeda
By Lucky Gold
(CNN) - Despite the claims of some within the Obama administration, al Qaeda and its offshoots aren’t dead, yet. They’ve insinuated themselves into Mali, Somalia, Yemen – and now in Syria, too.
Journalist Jon Lee Anderson of The New Yorker is in Aleppo, which has become a key battleground Syria’s civil war. And in an interview with Christiane Amanpour on Thursday, he gave a unique insight into the fighting there.
Speaking of the out-gunned opposition, Anderson told her, “They’re young men prepared to fight. They believe this is the decisive battle for Syria. That if Bashar al-Assad can’t dislodge them from Aleppo, then it’s over for him. So they have to fight to the death.”
But do they count foreign fighters among their numbers and are there members of al Qaeda and its splinter groups opposing Assad? FULL POST
Kim Jong Un married in 2009, according to intelligence service
(CNN) - North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un married 23-year-old Ri Sol Ju in 2009, according to a South Korean lawmaker on Thursday.
The curiosity over Kim's wife started several weeks ago when North Korean state television and news agencies showed video footages and pictures of an unidentified woman attending official events by Kim's side.
The name of the mystery woman was only announced Wednesday as Ri Sol Ju by North Korean state television.
Details about her remained unknown until Jung Chung-Rai, a South Korean lawmaker from Democratic United Party, attended a closed-door intelligence session by National Intelligence Service (NIS), which is equivalent to the CIA in the U.S. FULL POST
From a Chinese prison to Wall Street
Tian Hou, who was imprisoned during the Tiananmen Square crackdown two decades ago, talks about her career in business.
Romney's foreign policy prescription for Syria
By Samuel Burke
The international community’s lack of a coherent policy for Syria’s spiraling situation has now allowed the power vacuum to begin to fill with al-Qaeda elements, a senior intelligence official has told Christiane Amanpour. In addition, Jihadi elements are also working to fill that space.
With the radical presence increasing in Syria, calls for Western help to arm the rebels are growing. Wednesday, Mitt Romney’s Senior Foreign Advisor Richard Williamson, reiterated that the Republican presidential candidate believes the U.S. should openly help arm the opposition – a stance the Obama administration rejects and White House spokesman Jay Carney in late May said would add to the “chaos and carnage” in Syria.
In an interview with Christiane Amanpour, Williamson said, “This has gone on for seventeen months and early on Governor Romney said we should have people working with the opposition, trying to identify the moderate forces and help them unify.”
But when Amanpour pressed Richardson on other options to try and weaken Assad, he said Romney is reluctant. “He won’t join his friend John McCain and others who are calling for no fly zones and safe havens.” But he added, “Clearly it’s not something you can put off the table if this goes on.” FULL POST
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