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The area once known worldwide for their beauty and serenity are now under the terrible influence of dark clouds (Taliban). Without any doubt, Pakistan is passing through her darkest period. The Taliban based Shari’at and its reality became very...
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Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country in the world, according to a new list that ranks nations by combining measures of their ecological footprint with the...
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Parents were banned from attending an inter-school sports day to protect pupils from kidnappers and paedophiles.
The host school said they could not prevent...
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Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search...
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The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother...
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United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on...
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Very few like me have a gut feeling that BJP will come back. It was a painful experience to witness rise and fall of a substitute to family-run congress. Congress which...
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The African Union refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan’s president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new...
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The latest two-yearly study of the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission damningly reveals that indigenous children are six times more likely to suffer...
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Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on...
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From Angela Merkel to Barack Obama, few have emerged unscathed from his peculiar brand of music hall humour, adolescent japes and sexist quips.
As Italy prepares to...
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
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Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
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In Penitents Compete (Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor in Turkish), religious leaders will seek to convert at least one of the 10 atheists in each episode to their faith. Those...
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Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change....
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Besides blocking access to food and construction to Palestinians in the Gaza Stripe - and even to a lesser degree in the West Bank - Israel also prevents Palestinians...
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As many as 41 security personnel have been killed after their military helicopter fell down in Feroz Khel area, bordering the Orakzai and Khyber agencies, yesterday...
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For all the complaints from American right-wingers that the European Union is a nation of appeasers whom do not stand up to thuggish regimes, the EU is actually more...
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Marsha Williams always hesitated when mail arrived from the government, but after Hurricane Katrina she began to fear the letters.
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While we as a nation boast of the burgeoning developments in IT and the seamless flow of foreign funds, this could come as a rude shock. This sure will shift our focus...
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They have hardly made their journey on the trajectory called life. Yet they have had to witness which most adults would shudder to even imagine. With hopes in their...
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Oprah Winfrey is going for a voluntary HIV/AIDS test and certainly, it has set an impeccable example to thousands of people round the world that there should be no...
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Henry Lee Burton talks with a reporter while sitting in his truck before going to work in New Orleans, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. Burton often brings his adult literacy course work to his job. Overshadowed by bureaucratic failures and slow-moving rebuilding..
