The Channel Tunnel, which reopened yesterday after a fire, has now been reported to have reached temperatures of 1,800 degrees."The fire, which broke out on Thursday on a France-bound freight shuttle train carrying...
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It's already started, Republican strong-arm tactics to prevent people from having a voice at the RNC."ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- Police raided a rental hall used by a group organizing protests at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Friday. The RNC...
"A dispute between the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation and the provincial government could disrupt the start of classes at an Edmundston high school in September. The Madawaska First Nation owns about half of the land where the Cité des Jeunes school is located. The First...
Under development The Rat-Bot cometh One of the most fascinating science related books I have ever read is The Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition. This story might as well be right out of its pages."A...
The DNC schedule was released today. Monday August 25th’s headline prime-time speaker will be Michelle Obama. Other speakers will be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senator Claire McCaskill &...
Pakistan is grappling with surging militant violence fuelled by groups in the border areas. After Monday’s deadly suicide bombing in Islamabad and alleged Pakistani involvement in another such attack in Kabul. US...
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Even after rounds of peace talks with Tibetan representatives China had warned Dalai Lama and exhorted him to keep away from Olympic games."After latest fence-mending talks on Tibet issue that failed to make any...
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" The Jakarta administration's plan to replace 2,500 base transceiver station (BTS) towers with 850 newer ones will lead to cellular network chaos, says a member of the Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory...
Ahead of Presidential elections in Zimbabwe on friday President Mugabe has rejected all the calls of calling off elections. He lambasted British government for its policy on Zimbabwe. "Zimbabwe's...
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UPDATE: Power's restored. Which isn't to say that perhaps some portions of government aren't still working in the dark.Out of power: the Treasury Department. Apparently, though, Congress is still working. Maybe being...
UPDATE: Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak cas called on Israeli prime minister Eduh Olmert to resign."Defence
Minister Ehud Barak called on Wednesday on Ehud Olmert to step aside as
Israel's prime minister after...
Some pretty shocking revelations have come out about FBI agents at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba voicing concerns about torture and possible war crimes being committed there. The report says the...
The Olympic torch relay has begun through the rainy streets of Hong Kong"One angry mob harrassed a small group of pro-democracy supporters, yelling at them, "Do you think this is Paris?" It was a reference to the...
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The torch will be heavily guarded in Seoul on Sunday, as the Olympic torch continues on its journey around the globe. Seoul was the site of the 1988 Summer Olympics."The first of 80 runners was scheduled to start the...
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Certainly Updates and more on this story are welcome."Olympic terrorist plot foiled: ChinaIan Ransom and Benjamin Kang Lim, ReutersPublished: Thursday, April 10, 2008BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities...