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Aug 18 2008, AP

Some Key West stores were shuttered Monday while others stubbornly remained open as rain and wind gusts from Tropical Storm Fay began to lash at south Florida after the storm claimed up to 35 lives in the Caribbean.

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The price of oil fluctuated above $114 a barrel Wednesday, propped up by worries about tropical storms and heightened tension between Russia and the West, but hampered by a massive increase in U.S. crude supplies last week.

 
 
Aug 19 2008 by AP0 Comments

While Western officials are mulling how to punish Russia for invading neighboring Georgia, most Russians view Georgia as the aggressor _ aided and abetted by a hostile West.

 
 
Aug 18 2008 by AP0 Comments

The National Hurricane Center says the center of Tropical Storm Fay has passed over Key West.

 
 
Aug 18 2008 by AP0 Comments

Around the country, Americans are tightening their belts, scrapping vacation plans, eating more dinners at home, getting rid of their SUVs and watching “For Sale” signs linger on front lawns. But in oil-and-gas rich West Texas, folks are living large _ again.

 
 
Aug 18 2008 by AP0 Comments

Some Key West stores were shuttered Monday while others stubbornly remained open as rain and wind gusts from Tropical Storm Fay began to lash at south Florida after the storm killed at least eight people in the Caribbean.

 
 
Aug 18 2008 by AP0 Comments

Some Key West stores were shuttered Monday while others stubbornly remained open as rain and wind gusts from Tropical Storm Fay began to lash at south Florida after the storm claimed up to 35 lives in the Caribbean.

 
 
Aug 18 2008 by AP0 Comments

Hungry and uncertain, beleaguered residents in Gori and other occupied Georgian cities waited anxiously Monday for Russian forces to begin their promised pullout from Georgia after a short but intense war that shocked the West.

 
 
Aug 18 2008 by AP0 Comments

While some Key West businesses began putting up hurricane shutters in preparation for Tropical Storm Fay, tourists and residents still strolled lazily through town.

 
 
Aug 18 2008 by AP0 Comments

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is heading to Europe on Monday to talk with NATO allies about what message the West should send to Russia following its invasion of Georgia.

 
 
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Feb 1 2008 by Ravneet0 Comments

Liberty is trampled under the feet of military regimes. Rights are abused in the name of economic development, political activism is choked to eliminate corruption. And people are being subjugated or made to believe in the superiority of nonpolitical...

 
 
Nov 3 2007 by Sunit0 Comments

Vladimir Putin’s tenure as the President of Russian Federation has come under great domestic and international scanner. Though some of the president’s domestic and international policies have been controversial, there is no denying to the fact that...

 
 
Oct 24 2007 by Balbhadra Rana0 Comments

The big organizations, like Amnesty International, human rights commissions and above all UN, always talk about the widespread corruption and violence against humanity. Mind you, these things have not started happening recently, particularly in the...

 
 
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Relations between Russia and Britain have hit a new low. In the latest bickering FSB [Russian intelligence] has accused British spy agency MI6[Military Intelligence] of interfering in the internal matters of Russia.

Russia believes the west,...

 
 
Oct 6 2007 by Vinod0 Comments

As Putin announced to change office in Russia from President to PM, a new debate begins: whether it’s a step towards democracy or a kick to democracy.

However, another substantial issue is what changes will there be in Russian mood after...

 
 
Sep 10 2007 by AMIT0 Comments

Al Qaeda is gaining in numbers, thanks to prolific sympathy from vulnerable and conservative sections among the Muslims pinning to decimate the western ethos perceived as against Islam, taking no time in converting themselves terrorists. The war on...

 
 
Sep 10 2007 by AMIT0 Comments

Al Qaeda and global terrorism continuing its seethe against civilizations and upfront attack on the people has found its latest abode in the relatively peaceful Algeria. Following the typical methods it adopted to ravage Afghanistan and Iraq, the...

 
 
Jun 14 2007 by Ravneet0 Comments

The developed nations need to take measures to curb the ever-growing problem of global warming caused by the process of development and refrain from coercing developing countries such as India to obstruct their economic growth on the pretext of...

 
 
Apr 16 2007 by Kuhika0 Comments

Even as the ‘nuke-war’ between Iran and the west seems to be at its peek, Iran refuses to bow out. One would imagine that the powerful west would be able to belittle the middle eastern country, but Iran has decided that it would not let that happen. In...

 
 
Apr 5 2007 by Naresh Chauhan0 Comments

Growing tension in the Middle-east and Iran’s political confrontation with the Western nations over its critical nuclear enrichment program have just ’spooked’ oil prices all over the world. The US President George W. Bush, on Tuesday answering to a...

 
 
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