Darfur's government is saying that the attack earlier today in a suburb of Khartoum by Sudanese troops was defeated."It was the first time fighting had reached the city in decades of conflict between the...
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According to blogger Warner Crocker, a spokesperson for Fox News has apparently discovered that the Clinton campaign, in an act of web 2.0 campaign maliciousness, is to blame for the technical glitches and problems...
This looks like it will be an on going story. This is what Reuters has so far. As it sais, mainly journalists. I am not sure how many foreigners are in the hotel."By Karen Lema and Raju Gopalakrishnan
MANILA (Reuters) - Rebel Philippine soldiers holed up in a luxury Manila...
In the continuing saga that is the transit strike in France, thousands of transit workers are still away from work, forcing hundreds of thousands to walk or take over-stressed taxis and what little transit is...
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"France's high-speed TGV rail network has been damaged by a "concerted campaign of sabotage", the SNCF state-owned rail operator has said.
It said acts of sabotage overnight, including fires, caused huge delays to...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - America's space agency was shaken Thursday by two startling and unrelated reports: One involved claims that astronauts were drunk before flying. The other was news from NASA itself that a...
According to breaking news from NASA,
a space program worker is alleged to have deliberately damaged a
computer that was meant to fly aboard the Endeavour in less than two
weeks, in an apparent act of sabotage."A...
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Its sad that former employees of the government who criticize the current administration get labeled as almost committing treason. Looks like the government will do anything to suppress an individual's first amendment rights to get in the mud.""The CIA ... is the only agency...
Iraqi's Oil Should Stay in Public Hands" Interview with Faleh Abood Umara, general secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, president of the Electrical Workers Union of Iraq.
David: Recently the oil workers union went on strike for...
"Global oil prices have risen on the back of violence and political turmoil in Nigeria, the world's eighth largest crude exporter.
With militant attacks shutting down a fifth of Nigeria's oil production, London's...
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Not every great deal is heavily advertised. Some
bargains are deliberately kept off the menu, available only to those
who know to ask. A company may have decided the deal wasn't profitable
but doesn't want to alienate long-term customers by eliminating it. Other
times, the...
"Raining On The ABM Parade
"A significant portion of the U.S. missile defense capability was wiped out during the summer of 2006 because torrential rains caused ground-based interceptor silos to be damaged by flood waters," the Project on Government Oversight said in a...
from the Daily Mail..."Rail crash investigators were facing up to the possibility that the Virgin train derailment could have been the result of sabotage.
Four vital steel bolts from a set of points that the train...
I am following this story as I have family visiting this area in India and am trying to track down their itinerary."MURDER ON THE FRIENDSHIP EXPRESS
Bomb Blast Kills Over 60 on India-Pakistan Train
An explosion on a train linking India with Pakistan has killed over 60 people....
""Tesco leads UK food label campaign against obesity" or so Tesco PLC and Rachel Sanderson at Reuters Group PLC would like you to believe. Apparently Tesco PLC are launching this £4m new food labelling campaign to...