French Immigration Minister Eric Besson today (17 September 2009) announced that he will clear the makeshift tents in Calais nicknamed ‘the jungle’ by the end of this week. An exclusive, but gut-wrenching...
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I was listening this past weekend to an NPR story about the history of chewing gum (see http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106439600&ft=1&f=1032). ...
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Fight between rebel Tamil tigers and the Sri Lankan air force (SLAF) have intensified. Sri Lankan air force launched several attacks including one on a sea tiger base in the last 24 hours destroying training camps and disrupting meetings of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorHere is a companion piece to Now Public's Cythnia Yoo coverage on Burma and her link at the end of this story.Perhaps I am wrong in my assessment of Burma's Ruling...
"Tura, India - Terrified villagers have claimed to local authorities that “bigfoot”-type hairy giants are actually roaming the remote northeast jungles. "
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Bataan is a region of the Philippines in which battles between American/Philippine forces and Japanese soldiers took place during WWII. After a formal surrender on April 9, 1942, the Japanese found themselves in...
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