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submitted by Grace 222 weeks 3 days 18 hours 1 minute ago
Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan on Saturday, suspending the constitution, replacing the chief justice before a crucial Supreme Court ruling on his future as president, and cutting communications in the capital.
Pakistan's main opposition leader, Benezir Bhutto, flew back to the country...(more)
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submitted by Micca 170 weeks 1 day 1 hour 36 minutes ago
With his silver-topped cane, finger-wagging rhetoric and a tendency to refer to himself in the third person, rebel leader Laurent Nkunda is the latest big man to stake his claim in this troubled country.
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submitted by Micca 119 weeks 18 hours 7 minutes ago
This report argues that governments have failed to acknowledge a looming oil supply crunch. Their collective failure means we have lost a decade in which action could have been taken. Recognition of the oil supply crunch would also have injected a sense of urgency and increased...(more)
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submitted by Micca 119 weeks 18 hours 12 minutes ago
It is 30 years since the film Mad Max was made, launching the career of Mel Gibson.
The film made a big splash at the time for its terrifying view of a world without oil, where gangs of grisly looking people roam deserts in a post-apocalyptic world,...(more)
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submitted by Ari 201 weeks 16 hours 48 minutes ago
The opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is in talks with advisers to President Robert G. Mugabe of Zimbabwe, amid signs that some of those close to Mr. Mugabe may encourage him to resign, a Western diplomat and a prominent Zimbabwe political analyst said Tuesday. The negotiations about...(more)
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submitted by Oscar Contreras 246 weeks 1 day 17 hours 13 minutes ago
Villagers in south-west China attack family planning officials, overturned cars and set fire to government buildings.
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submitted by Collin Frost 226 weeks 2 days 15 hours 26 minutes ago
Myanmar's military leaders said weapons had been seized from Buddhist monatasteries and announced dozens of new arrests today, defying global outrage over its violent repression of protestors who sought an end to 45 years of dictatorship.
Recent raids on monasteries turned up guns, knives and ammunition, though...(more)
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submitted by Oscar Contreras 138 weeks 1 day 17 hours 18 minutes ago
• At least one person killed at opposition rally in Tehran• Defeated reformist leader Mousavi urges fresh electionShots have been fired at an opposition rally in Tehran where more than 100,000 Iranians were protesting against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.An Associated Press photographer saw one...(more)
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submitted by Oscar Contreras 166 weeks 6 days 1 hour 11 minutes ago
They came wearing black hoods, firing automatic weapons and throwing grenades. They took hostages, attacked two hotels, a movie theater a café, a train station and other popular and undefended “soft targets.”
Who are they? The answer to that question remained in dispute Thursday as security...(more)
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submitted by pbl 175 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago
Hours after a truck bomber slew 53 people last weekend at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, the country’s interior minister laid responsibility for the attack on Taliban militants holed up in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, or FATA, the remote, wild region that straddles the...(more)
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submitted by M Walker 238 weeks 5 days 16 hours 58 minutes ago
Shells are fired at the presidential palace and the venue for peace talks in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
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submitted by Grace for team Bushwhackers... dissent ala mode 211 weeks 4 hours 20 minutes ago
US Senate majority leader Harry Reid on Tuesday asked President George W. Bush to slash aid to Pakistan if upcoming elections in the troubled Asian nation are not free and fair.
