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| Atomic World Champ on the Ropes |
| Author: Neon @ Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:57 pm |
FRANCE'S NUCLEAR CONUNDRUM
Atomic World Champ on the Ropes
By Holger Dambeck
France is proud of having the world's most developed nuclear energy infrastructure, but a series of incidents at the Tricastin nuclear power plant has shaken its self-confidence. Is public sentiment about nuclear po...
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| Moscow's Power Politics |
| Author: Neon @ Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:34 pm |
08/11/2008
A HOT PROXY WAR
Moscow's Power Politics
By Jörg Himmelreich
The rapid escalation of the conflict in South Ossetia shows just how much the crisis suits all parties involved. Georgia wants to integrate itself into the West, and Russia wants to prevent just that. The welfare of the ...
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| Globalization Is Destroying the World's Oceans |
| Author: Neon @ Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:08 pm |
OUR RAVAGED SEAS
Globalization Is Destroying the World's Oceans
By Thomas Schulz
The oceans are a primary source of food for mankind, and fishing provides 200 million people with income, as meager as it may be. But growing demand and the industrial-scale exploitation of the seas are destroyin...
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| Musharraf 'Lied' about Husband's Role in Atomic Bomb |
| Author: Neon @ Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:51 pm |
WIFE OF PAKISTANI NUCLEAR SCIENTIST A.Q. KHAN TALKS
Musharraf 'Lied' about Husband's Role in Atomic Bomb
In an account to be published in SPIEGEL on Monday, the wife of Pakistan's A.Q. Khan -- the man accused of running a global nuclear weapons bazaar -- alleges that Pakistani President Pervez ...
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| Residents flee Toronto explosion |
| Author: Neon @ Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:02 pm |
Residents flee Toronto explosion
Sunday, 10 August 2008 17:55 UK
BBB NEWS
Thousands of people have been evacuated following an explosion at a propane gas plant in the north of the Canadian city of Toronto.
A two-mile (3.2km) exclusion zone was set up and police ordered residents of the Keel...
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| Russian Ground Forces Assault Vital Georgian City |
| Author: Neon @ Sun Aug 10, 2008 8:54 pm |
Russian Ground Forces Assault Vital Georgian City
By ANNE BARNARD
Published: August 10, 2008
This article was reported by Andrew E. Kramer, Anne Barnard and C. J. Chivers, and written by Ms. Barnard.
TBILISI, Georgia — Russian tanks and troops moved through the separatist enclave of Sou...
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| 'The Solzhenitsyn Shock' |
| Author: Neon @ Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:38 pm |
'The Solzhenitsyn Shock'
With the death of Russia's Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the world has lost one of the great figures of the past century. In Germany, though, editorialists criticize the role the Nobel Prize winner played in his later life in pushing Moscow away from the West.
In the West, ...
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| Obama switches on voting rights |
| Author: Neon @ Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:16 pm |
Obama switches on voting rights
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama has called for delegates from Michigan and Florida to have their voting rights restored at the Democratic convention.
They were stripped of those rights when the two states held early primary votes in February, breaking party ...
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| France accused in Rwanda genocide |
| Author: Neon @ Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:09 pm |
France accused in Rwanda genocide
Rwanda has accused France of playing an active role in the genocide of 1994, in which about 800,000 people were killed.
A justice ministry report said France was aware of preparations for the genocide and helped train the ethnic Hutu militia perpetrators.
T...
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| US hearing for 'al-Qaeda' woman |
| Author: Neon @ Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:01 pm |
US hearing for 'al-Qaeda' woman
A Pakistani woman scientist accused of links to the al-Qaeda leadership is to appear in a US court after being transferred there from Afghanistan.
Mother-of-three Aafia Siddiqui, 36, an ex-student at the elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), faces ch...
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| Flags, veils and sharia |
| Author: Neon @ Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:14 pm |
Flags, veils and sharia
Jul 17th 2008 | ANKARA, KARS AND TOKAT
From The Economist print edition
Behind the court case against Turkey’s ruling party lies an existential question: how Islamist has the country become?
A MARBLE fountain held up by bare-breasted maidens in the eastern city...
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| 'The Tenure of Coalition Troops in Iraq Should Be Limited' |
| Author: Neon @ Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:46 pm |
'The Tenure of Coalition Troops in Iraq Should Be Limited'
SPIEGEL
The situation in Iraq seems to be improving. SPIEGEL spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki about his approval of Barack Obama's withdrawal plans and what he hopes from US President Bush in his last months in office.
SPIEG...
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| Western Olympic Ads Cheerlead for China |
| Author: Neon @ Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:29 pm |
Western Olympic Ads Cheerlead for China
By DAVID BARBOZA
Published: July 20, 2008
The New York Times
BEIJING — It is becoming increasingly clear which nation global corporations will be rooting for at this summer’s Olympics: China.
Or at least that’s what it looks like from...
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| Obama meets Afghan leader Karzai |
| Author: Neon @ Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:48 pm |
Obama meets Afghan leader Karzai
US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has met President Hamid Karzai while on a visit to Afghanistan.
Details of the talks have not yet been given. Mr Obama said earlier this week he would send extra US forces to the country if he is elected US preside...
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| Pope warns of 'spiritual desert' |
| Author: Neon @ Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:40 pm |
Pope warns of 'spiritual desert'
The Pope has urged young people to stay away from the "spiritual desert" he says is spreading across the world, at the end of his trip to Australia.
Pope Benedict XVI told a crowd of about 200,000 people at the Catholic Church's World Youth Day event ...
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| Bomb blasts hit Spanish resorts |
| Author: Neon @ Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:33 pm |
Bomb blasts hit Spanish resorts
Four bombs have exploded in northern Spain, although there have been no reports of casualties.
The first device went off at about noon on a seafront promenade in the resort of Laredo, in the Cantabria region.
A few hours later another bomb exploded there. Two ...
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| Terror in Kabul |
| Author: Neon @ Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:41 pm |
Afghanistan
Terror in Kabul
Jul 8th 2008 | KABUL
From Economist.com
What lay behind a devastating attack on the Indian embassy in Afghanistan?
WITNESSES said that a blinding cloud of dust filled the air in the minutes after a car exploded in the compound of the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afgha...
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| Albania Seeks Solutions to its Blood Feud Problem |
| Author: Neon @ Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:27 pm |
07/08/2008
Albania Seeks Solutions to its Blood Feud Problem
By Jeffrey White in Bathore, Albania
It's a centuries-old tradition, but even modern-day Albania is still plagued by blood feuds. Thousands in the country don't leave their homes for fear of falling victim to revenge murders. But r...
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| Poland plans contingency for 2012 |
| Author: Neon @ Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:25 pm |
Poland plans contingency for 2012
Poland say they will step in and provide six of the eight venues for Euro 2012 if co-hosts Ukraine are not ready to help stage the tournament.
Ukraine have been given until September by Uefa president Michel Platini to prove they are capable of co-hosting Eu...
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| UN to urge revamp of Afghan aid |
| Author: Neon @ Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:12 pm |
UN to urge revamp of Afghan aid
The United Nations' envoy to Afghanistan is to outline a new plan on spending foreign aid, amid fears that millions of dollars have been wasted.
Kai Eide told the BBC that too much aid money was spent on salaries and goods in the countries that provided it.
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