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Baghdad bombing leaves hole in diplomatic corps
Aug 25 2009, EnJames

Iraqi diplomats are clearing out the rubble of their bombed Foreign Ministry building while the nation grapples with the aftermath of an attack that has rocked the foundation of its fragile security and served notice that the country is still at...

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Jim Jones: 'You Could Have 200,000 Troops...Afghanistan Will Swallow Them Up'
Craig, Miami
In a SPIEGEL interview, the national security adviser to the White House, General James Jones, has expressed strong skepticism regarding the request of General Stanley...
Afghanistan war, US troops, Obama
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Landslide kills 39 in southern India
Sanyog, Chennai
A landslide triggered by torrential seasonal rains swept through a hilly region in southern India, killing at least 39 people, an official said Tuesday. The landslide...
India, Land Slide, Ooty land slide
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Medical Marijuana in California: Clinics Beat Dealers
Prince, Columbus
Some dude outside my supermarket just asked me to sign a petition to legalize marijuana. Apparently he was so high that he forgot he’s in California, where pot is...
Marijuana, Drugs, legalizing Drugs
made popular 27 min ago
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Catholic Church Emerges as Key Player in Legislative Battle
Andrew, Tempe
Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potential to upend a key...
Obama, Health care, Obama health care
made popular 35 min ago
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Afghan Senate to Assess Pakistan’s Ill-treatment of Afghan Refugees
Ikramuddin Bahram, Peshawar
The upper house of Afghan Parliament “Misharano Jirga” has condemned the ‘arrests’ of Afghan refugees in Pakistan and has said it will closely assess the...
Foreign Ministry, Pakistani ambassador in Afghanistan, Registered Refugees
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The Millionaire Congress
Marco Villa, Connecticut
Congress today is without a doubt an elite institution. A new survey states that 44% members of Congress are millionaires compared to 1% of the American public. That...
US Congress, millionaire, Millionaire Congress
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Hindi faces hostility!
Shujaat, Hyderabad
An act more defaming than this can hardly be imagined. The Maharashtra Assembly seems to have become a hub for goons to reign. It’s not everyday that you get to...
MNS, nation, Hindi
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A Swedish Diplomat Was Asked to Leave Morocco
Mohammed Taha, BS
Morocco’s foreign minister protested at “unacceptable, professional mistake” of the Swedish embassy’s advisor Block-Mazoyer. The Minister said in a statement...
Sweden, diplomacy, Swedish Diplomat expelled
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Is There An Economic Miracle in Israel?
Marco Villa, Connecticut
A new propaganda book on Israel states that the nation is home to an economic miracle because Israel is small and has so many innovative start-up IT companies. Good for...
Israel, Economic boom, Miracle
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Christian extremism - Scott Roeder justifies why he killed abortion Dr. Scott Tiller
Incognito, Boca Raton
The issue of abortion is a slippery slope. I do not, in any way, condone it as a form of birth control, nor do I condone late term abortions. However, in cases of...
Scott Roeder, Dr. Scott Tiller, anti-abortion
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Palestinians To Declare State?
Marco Villa, Connecticut
During the Oslo years, Yasir ‘Arafat threatened to publicly declare a state before final status talks as the Israeli government continued to refuse to negotiate...
Palestinians, Palestine state, Zionism
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Modern life is at stake under border dispute
Asokananda Prosad, kharagpur town
We the people in and around interior of a country have very little idea about how so many people spend their lives on both the sides of a border in between two...
German union, Fall of the Berlin wall, border dispute
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Proposed sale of PSU shares : hope and concern
OJASWI, Kolkata
It has become mandatory for all profit making Public Sector Firms (PSU) to make at least 10% of their equities public and relevant rules have been duly amended by the...
PSU, Business, Public Sector Firms
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Fighting illiteracy or discouraging high education?
Mohammed Taha, BS
A new program was launched recently by the Moroccan government to build 1246 schools especially in those ‘urban non-urban’ places to facilitate access to schooling...
illiteracy, education, Education plans
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Chavez Threatens Columbia with War
Marco Villa, Connecticut
Conditions are fastly declining in Venezuela. Inflation is up, water and power supply are down, and Chavez is becoming more and more unpopular with his current rating...
Hugo Chavez, Columbia, Venezuela-Colombia relations
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The voices of reason- Anti-Shariah March in London
Incognito, Boca Raton
Although there are far too few voices of reason in the Islamic world, there are those who do have the courage to speak out against the violence being perpetrated in the...
British Muslims, Secular Democracy, Anti-Shariah March
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Riots in Al-Tafayleh Neighborhood-Jordan
Wa'd, Amman
Rioting has been going on and off for the last couple of days in al Tafayleh neighborhood in eastern Amman. Riots were triggered after the death of a 20-year-old man...
Al-Tafayleh Neighborhood, Eastern Amman, Riots
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Saudi Arabia's Courageous Fight Against Hawthai Rebels
Marco Villa, Connecticut
Saudi Arabia is experiencing a patriotic high. Saudi media is beeming with pride. Saudi Arabia’s armed forced are courageously fighting against Yemeni Hawthi...
Yemen, Middle East, Hawthai Rebels
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Unaffordable and Deteriorating Quality of Education in India
Anirudh, Mumbai
In India, more than 95% of the schools are not teaching properly. It is very difficult to get good education without tuition and parents teaching. Teachers are just...
Indian education, access to education, poor education
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Netanyahu's Secret Meeting with Obama
Marco Villa, Connecticut
Tonight - November 9, 2009 - Israeli prime minister Netanyahu met with U.S. president Obama in a meeting that was off-limits to the press. The timing - 7pm - was also...
Palestine, Barack Obama, Israel
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Bombings blow up Baghdad's summer of optimism
Yasser, Baghdad
Some worshippers stayed away from mosques Friday, offering their traditional prayers at home. Markets had fewer-than-usual shoppers. Parks were strangely uncrowded —...
Iraq war, Blasts, suicide bombing
made popular Aug 22 2009
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75 dead as series of blasts shakes Baghdad
Mazin, Baghdad
Martin Chulov reports from the Iraqi capital in the aftermath of at least six explosions in which government buildings appear to have been targeted. Baghdad was rocked...
Iraq war, Blasts, Iraq violence
made popular Aug 19 2009
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Iraq's Bombs of August: A Return to the Bad Old Days?
CJ, San Francisco
Iraq dreams of what is called sustainable peace — a qualified condition that allows life to go on with an acceptable level of tumult. And so, with a measure of...
Iraq war, Blasts, blast walls
made popular Aug 12 2009
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String of bombings kill at least 42 in Iraq
Korey, Houston
A double truck bombing tore through a Shiite community near the northern city of Mosul, while blasts in Baghdad targeted primarily Shiites in a wave of violence that...
Iraq war, Suicide bombing, Iraq violence
made popular Aug 10 2009
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Bombs Target Shiites In Iraq, Killing At Least 37
Domonique, Washington
A suicide truck bomber flattened a Shiite mosque Friday in northern Iraq, and roadside bombs struck Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, as at least 51 people were killed and...
Iraq war, Blasts, suicide bombing
made popular Aug 8 2009
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Baghdad blast walls to come down
Korey, Houston
The Iraqi government has announced that within the next 40 days all blast walls will be removed from Baghdad. The building of the walls escalated in 2006 at the height...
Iraq war, Blasts, blast walls
made popular Aug 6 2009
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After the Shooting, Another Showdown
Yoann, Minneapolis
When insurgents attacked an American convoy with AK-47 rounds and a couple of grenades on a dusty highway in a Baghdad suburb this week, U.S. soldiers returned fire,...
iraq war, Shootouts, Iraq violence
made popular Jul 25 2009
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The Iranian Extremist Campaign's Reaction to US-Iraqi Pact
Nassim, Damascus
After the U.S.-Iraqi pact was adopted by the Iraqi parliament’s ratification through a wide majority, I suggested in a previous article about the strategic...
Iraq security pact, Iran policy, Mideast extremism
made popular Dec 4 2008
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Iraq: A presidential romance, his campaign for democracy, and a few dead bodies
Jayanta Bhattacharya, New Delhi
The big story today as elected by the major and not so major world media is that there had been a series of bombings in Iraq leaving quite a few corpses (BBC reports it...
Iraq, Iraq Violence, Baghdad Bombing, George Bush
made popular Apr 18 2007
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