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The peace and tranquility of my morning walk is shattered by the noise of a huge truck roaring up the mountain road. Every time I see them, they seem to get big in size and their load even bigger. Dozens pass by every day and I know where these...
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My cousin Deepa is yet another victim of domestic violence by her husband and in-laws. On behalf of the tormented soul, I ask for society’s opinion on a vital...
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I have been reflecting in the last few of days on what it means to be a man. One might just as well ask what it means to be human in that the basic existential...
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Thuggish far-right Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has officially lost it. The Israeli press is reporting that he has become paranoid a la Nixon believing...
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Idolatrous thinking
Two events in recent times brought to my mind a characteristic of human thinking that needs examination. The media hype and mass hysteria...
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The Los Angeles police chief has raised the prospect of a homicide charge over the death of Michael Jackson.
Homicide does not necessarily mean murder — it could...
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Pope Benedict XVI stressed the church’s opposition to abortion and stem cell research in his first meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday, pressing the...
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Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro predicted that Latin America would be swept by a wave of military coups if Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was not returned to power...
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Recently, an Army National Guardsman and Arabic translator who openly challenged the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, was...
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Authorities in Kenya’s capital say they have unearthed a syndicate stealing the city’s water to irrigate farms.
Nairobi City Council says nearly half the...
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Much of the complicated work of dismantling and removing millions of dollars of equipment from the combat outposts in the city has been done during the dark of night....
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The tragedies took the total killed in that country to 184, passing the grim statistic of 179 UK servicemen and women who lost their lives in Iraq and rapidly...
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World leaders wrapped up the G8 summit in L’Aquila last night, saying that it could be the last meeting of its kind.
President Obama joined Silvio Berlusconi, the...
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On 3 July 2009 attack on the facility, children and administrator of the child’s Right and Reha-bilitation Network (CRARN)in Eket has continued to draw the irk and...
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The aunt of a soldier killed in Afghanistan has joined Charles Krauthammer and Bill O’Reilly in decrying the media coverage surrounding Michael Jackson’s death. Her...
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Karachi, Pakistan’s coastal city and provincial capital of Sindh province, is one of the world’s cheapest city for expatriates. This finding came from a global...
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All the right thinking people in this world should raise their voice in support of the around 1.4 million people living with HIV and AIDS in Kenya in their fight...
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Wrong,not if the father used to beat his mother blue and black till she vomited blood ,screaming for help that too in front of his young terrified son,then left the...
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The high court has done the right thing in promoting unnatural sex by decriminalizing article 377 as this is an effective way to check over population.
This act of the...
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and UK PM Gordon Brown have discussed the fate of the Lockerbie bomber during their first talks, held at the G8 summit.
Col Gaddafi urged...
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Al Qaeda’s affiliate in North Africa has carried out a string of killings, bombings and other lethal attacks against Westerners and African security forces in recent...
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A Lebanese man arrested three years ago on terrorism charges for allegedly plotting to blow up New York City commuter tunnels has been released on bail, Lebanese...
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For sale: A labyrinth of bombproof tunnels hidden about 100 feet beneath central London. Great location, mysterious past. And the price tag? Well, that’s a...
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For sale: A labyrinth of bombproof tunnels hidden about 100 feet beneath central London. Great location, mysterious past. And the price tag? Well, that’s a...
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Lebanon’s state-run news agency says a military court has postponed the trial of an alleged al-Qaida loyalist accused of plotting to attack New York City train...
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The foremost fantasy of most children is to be able to fly. Well if you are afraid of the leap but want to fly then indoor skydiving is the thing for you! Yet even this...
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A Palestinian man receives goods from Egypt through a tunnel dug 15 meters underneath the border in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Gaza has been virtually sealed off from the world since the Islamic militant Hamas seized.
