This is starting to sound like the line about having to destroy the town to save the town..."Accusations and denials are swirling in Kabul as the Afghan government and the international military forces try to unravel the facts surrounding an August 21 air strike in the...
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"ROME - An Italian museum on Thursday defied Pope Benedict and refused to remove a modern art sculpture portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg that the Vatican had condemned as...
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French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said today that the EU is considering sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Georgia. As Russia faces growing isolation from the West, Russian president Dmitri Medvedev...
This is what the First Nations of Clayoquot Sound are facing, high unemployment, poor housing conditions and little hope. With logging and mining about to begin, resource extraction is looked to as the ways and...
Is Sudan the only place to save those refugee?! Is that the right choice?! Do UNCHR fully aware about the safety for those refugee?!"Palestinian refugees along the Iraq-Syria border are so desperate, they may accept...
Plans by Durban to temporary legalize prostitution and "adult entertainment venues" is meeting with predictably vocal opposition. While this would be an easy way to generate tax-based revenue from an industry that will service (as it were) visiting sports fans anyway, I would...
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There will be no more privacy then... " Plans for a massive database snooping on the entire population were condemned yesterday as a ‘step too far for the British way of life’. In an Orwellian move, the Home Office is proposing to detail every phone call, e-mail,...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe United Nation's finger wagging at Mugabe is pretty useless when Mugabe states his "Mommy told him God chose him to be a Great Leader". As for Zimbabweans, if they...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorGays used to say,"We're Here, We're Queer, Get used to it!"Now it seems science have uncovered a new spin!Now Gays can proudly march and say "We're Here, We're an...
"CAIRO: Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Church, called for heavy security presence around the Upper Egyptian Abo Fana monastery during a phone-in on Channel 2’s El Beit Beitak show on Saturday.The Pope also accused the Arab tribes living in the area of stealing LE 1...
Myanmar's military rulers have recently let foreign aid workers in to the country, and then this..." MYANMAR’S ruling junta lashed out at foreign aid donors Friday, saying cyclone victims did not need supplies of...
Who knew that bad chart work could cause such potential cotastrophe?"A NUCLEAR submarine crashed off the coast of Scotland because senior officers used tracing paper to plot a course, it was revealed yesterday. Three crewmen were injured when the 4750-ton Hunter-killer sub...
One of the major Iraqi political parties is calling for harsh punishments for a US soldier who shot at the Koran, not just an apology and reassignment. Judging by the precedent set by previous such incidents in Iraq, such a move is unlikely to be taken by the US...
Gives you something to aim at I guess."Row over fish in urinal A Chinese restaurant has been criticised - for keeping ornamental fish in a urinal. The restaurant in Changchun city has...
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