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The U.S House of Representative just passed a bill that will address global warming by reducing the emission of gasses that cause climate change. It was a watered-down bill that passed by 219 to 212. The bill will face a tougher fate in the senate....
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African media leaders ended their meeting in Lagos yesterday with a call on owners and operators of media organisations to embrace the digital revolution for seamless...
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IN a move with damaging implications for investment, Zimbabwe plans to grab a 51% stake in foreign-owned firms within 60 days of the gazetting of the Indigenisation and...
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The reigning Miss England has relinquished her crown after being accused of a fight in a bar.
Pageant organizers say Rachel Christie has also withdrawn from next...
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SOMALI pirates have threatened to kill three crew members taken hostage from a Spanish fishing vessel if two suspected pirates being held in Spain are not freed, the...
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A RUSSIAN military plane crashed into the sea during a training exercise in Russia’s Far East region, leaving all eleven crew members missing and presumed dead,...
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The Democratic Republic of Congo army has used vaccination clinics as “bait” to attack civilians, says aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
Thousands...
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A SOUTH Korean woman has passed a written exam for a driver’s licence after 950 attempts.
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Kenyans have rarely been disappointed in the ability of their political leaders to be disappointing. So it’s not all that surprising that little has been done for...
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The UN’s nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the...
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I vividly recall the car journeys I would take as a teenager from Frankfurt to Berlin. In those days, the trip to the isolated city of West Berlin, which was located in...
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There was apparently not quite as much fun and games being played as expected by organizers at last year’s Beijing Olympics with news breaking that a stash of...
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When the U.S. last week finally brokered a deal between ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the man who replaced him following the June 28 coup, de facto...
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The naming of an honorary economic advisor to a small Southeast Asian country doesn’t usually make news. But Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s designation...
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While domestic insurgencies chip away at the control of Yemen’s central government and an Al Qaeda branch gains strength in regions beyond the government’s...
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Thousands had gathered under the shade of the trees by the airstrip in Akobo, waiting for the arrival of a United Nations helicopter packed with food aid.
Bony-armed...
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It is unclear from a story, whether this cabbie was this time a next “Indian student” victim of desperately seeking a place for morning sex-session, but attitude of...
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Sir, I represent the self employed urban middle class from services sector. I Have spent the 50 odd years of my existence in this country. Now when my descent has...
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The U.S. media will not notice and the U.S. government does not care - nor, in the case of the latter, should it. But Saudi Arabia - which is often outrageously...
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The annual pilgrimage to Mecca recently took place. Muslims are required - as part of the Five Pillars - to do the Hajj, as it is known, once in their life if health...
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Targeted killing in Baluchistan continues as a Professor of the University of Balochistan was shot dead outside his residence in Quetta on Thursday, November 05, 2009. ...
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For all the right-wing hysteria about President Obama being a socialist, the president is actually quite a centrist and even a corporatist. Depending on one’s...
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After much negotiations, the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives finally managed to pass President Obama’s “Cap-and-Trade” bill as part of...
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