Archive for August, 2007
Monday, August 27th, 2007
Iran has committed to a timetable for co-operation with the International Atomic Energy Agency in its investigation into Tehran's nuclear activities. Iran's mission to the IAEA said in the memorandum that it had cleared up questions from the UN's nuclear watchdog about its experiments with plutonium.Read the full story
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- She says she is the Democrat best equipped to fight terrorists, but White House hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton told New Hampshire voters Thursday that another attack on the United States would likely help Republican candidates at the polls.Read the full story
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
The blogosphere has come to life with the Vatican announcing that Pope Benedict XVI will issue a doctrinal pronouncement condemning tax evasion as "socially unjust" and denouncing tax havens and offshore bank accounts, claiming this reduces tax revenues for the benefit of society as a whole.Read the full story
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
In addition to the video footage, the three suspected plants wore the same brand boots, as evidenced by the soles, as the Sûreté du Québec riot police. Neither the SQ, nor the RCMP, commented; each initially denied planting agents provocateurs.Read the full story
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Anti-Gay Politician Says Blacks Responsible For Soliciting Gay Sex Charge (Tampa, Florida) State Rep. Bob Allen (R), a longtime foe of LGBT rights in Florida, has a bizarre excuse for being charged with offering a male cop $20 for oral sex in a washroom at a park.Read the full story
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
What is with the vociferously Christian, pro-Europocentric neo-conservative American right and Dr. Fidel Castro? Read the full story
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Relationship conflicts are a universal source of pain and confusion. I frequently counsel couples in distress where the woman is angry and the man is depressed. The woman cannot understand why the man won’t fix the problems in the relationship. The man feels inadequate. Nothing he does is good enough. ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Mr. Wood said the current American programs for eradication, interdiction and alternative livelihoods should be intensified, but he added that spraying poppy crops with herbicide remained “a possibility.” Afghan and British officials have opposed spraying, saying it would drive farmers into the arms of the Taliban.Read the full story
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
Eight children under the age of five die every minute in Africa from diseases which have cures, figures unveiled by the UN reveal.
A statement released at a meeting between representatives of Portuguese-speaking governments in Africa, the UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF, said the children mainly died as a ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
Less than a month after sending a high-profile expedition to the North Pole, a state-run research institute claimed Thursday to have proof that a large chunk of the Arctic belongs to Russia, although the statement was met by skepticism from foreign scientists.
"We obtained enough material to demonstrate that the Lomonosov ...
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