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Chaos had already been inflicted in Shripur and Western Kushaha when an Indian team led by District Magistrate of Supoul, Bihar Sarif Aalam, arrived at Judhgunj in Sunsari with 10 trucks loaded with wire-nets. Villagers were chasing cattle towards the...
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In news that will utterly shock you, baseball’s king of decency and humanity, Jose Canseco, has reportedly been busted at the US/Mexico border down near San Diego...
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Hurricane Norbert’s winds strengthened to 165 kilometers (105 miles) per hour today as it continued on a track to strike Mexico’s Baja California peninsula...
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This article is a big thank-you for all the inspiring comments on my last article (Meditation time, girls and boys). Those comments were gentle and moving, friendly and...
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Palestinian-American scholar Rashid Khalidi is being smeared along with Barack Obama by Zionist supporters of Israel in the United States. Although not all...
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Feeling the economic crisis that has engulfed Wall Street and now increasingly Main Street, the state of Virginia has undertaken several cost-cutting measures in...
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Prices are rocketing in Syria. All things has doubled its prices and maybe tripled. A quick view to the average of salaries in Syria and comparing it to the prices will...
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Recently released video from NTD TV shows life on the inside of the notorious Masanjia Labor Camp, also known as “Ideology Education School of Liaoning Province”....
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For years American President George Bush has been the object of amenity for Latin American socialist leaders and their supports as an imperial capitalist. But not so...
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Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain is at his wits end. With the economic crisis dominating headlines and people thinking first and foremost about their...
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The only purpose is to prove that the Bible we have today, IS NOT A FORGERY. It is the very same one as that which existed at the time of Prophet Muhammad, and which he...
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Republican John McCain: Favors increased offshore drilling and building 45 nuclear power reactors by 2030. Crystal Benton, speaking for McCain, said he proposes no...
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I had previously reported on the efforts of Afghani President Hamid Karzai to negotiate a truce with the Taliban than would bring them into the government. I noted then...
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The Bush administration early on in its ‘War on Terror’ justified the extralegal detention of armed combatants on the grounds that such combatants had...
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Republican Vice-President candidate Sarah Palin demonstrated once more her profound ignorance of the world stage. After previously insisting to no avail that she had...
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L’atelier WM is a a group of young artists founded in Paris in 2008. They have a line of colorful candles, both in looks and attitude. Hands making gestures cast...
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The following post was inspired by a previous instablogs post on the efforts of Indian women attempting to achieve whiter skin through advertised products.
I thought...
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Few nations are as tyrannical as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom’s official ideology ad-hears to a radical off-shout from the already conservative...
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The U.S. still has the world’s most competitive economy, despite the recent turmoil that has seen some Wall Street giants tumble and others turn to the Federal...
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The conservative author of a new anti-Obama book did not receive the welcome he envisioned in his recent trip to Kenya, the nation Obama’s late father called...
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Islam is an ethical religion
Muslims invented algebra
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Be it any calamity, catastrophe, or hassle, life moves on even better than before. Ever since the destructive earthquake hit China in May - the biggest natural disaster...
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In a disaster such as an earthquake or terrorist attack, nearly two-thirds of U.S. parents would disregard orders to evacuate and would rush to pick up their kids from...
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Over 60 thousand people have been displaced due to flooding caused by Koshi River due to damage in the embankment. Authorities are yet to confirm the exact death toll...
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In a sign that political instability and natural disasters can fuel technology spending, IBM Corp. plans to invest $300 million building new centers that can store...
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Rising seas, melting polar ice caps and strange weather tend to grab headlines as Earth’s climate grows warmer. But there are other dramatic outcomes that...
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Yesterday at around 1.30 IST, seven blasts ripped through the city of Bangalore. The blasts were of low intensity, and the bombs were not so effective; i.e. hundreds of...
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A year overdue, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a draft disaster housing strategy Monday, which leaves it largely up to the next administration to figure...
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Disaster recovery and relief efforts are progressing well in Myanmar’s cyclone-hit areas, despite logistical obstacles, a United Nations agency said...
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Bangladesh, the most crowded nation on earth, is set to disappear under the waves by the end of this century — and we will be to blame.
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That is the verdict of an expert panel whose leaked report warns of dire consequences like the loss of wetlands, vegetation and some fish species.The Green party has...
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The Bush administration has been lambasted for its 2005 response to Hurricane Katrina _ particularly the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s handling of...
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The government may house disaster victims in trailers again this hurricane season as a last resort, despite promises never to use them again because of safety hazards...
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Lately the images and news from China earthquake has been disturbing me a lot. Feel so helpless when mankind is battered against viciousness element of nature. For such...
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One earned a football scholarship years after burns and lung damage kept him in the hospital for two months. Another poured her grief into preventing other...
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Stepping out of the luxurious bubble, its time to get acquainted to certain bitter realities of life too! Natural disasters strike suddenly and leave behind lives...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced the delta megacities in Asia like Manila and Calcutta in India are at high risk of coastal flooding due to the...
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The bronze medallion embedded in the pavement behind the Commercial Bank of Texas is easy to overlook. About the size of a DVD, it barely registers as a bump for the...
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We are blaming our own government for donating only $1m to cyclone hit Bangladesh. Times of India has pointed out that India could have done so much more for the poor...
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Hurricane Katrina has many legacies for the Bush White House, none pleasant. One is the guarantee that as soon as disaster strikes in the United States, President...
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Houston, Texas Mayor Bill White testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee hearing on disaster recovery.
