hugo chavez often heard throwing punches at other countries is throwing them now at his own countrymen. one term has been uttered according to afp an average of ten times per speech in his latest appearances pitinyanqu i. pitiny anqui is a venezuelanism meant to qualify those who look up to the united states too much or imitates americans. chavez is making the term his own to call out sellouts a...
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the white house refused thursday to comment directly on pakistani anger at a crossborder raid by afghanistanbased international forces just days before pakistans presidential vote. spokeswoman dana perino said us authorities were working to increase coordination and cooperation and supporting the pakistanis as we work to fight against the taliban in a coordinated way. but perino met questions abou...
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from afp elephant kicks heroin habit with china island rehab. an elephant has kicked his heroin habit after a threeyear stint on an island rehab in southern china an official and state media said thursday. the fouryearold asian elephant called xiguang has now being transported to a wildlife reserve in southwest china after being cured of his addiction with some clean living on hainan island xinhu...
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this news is a little on the lighter side of things but hey its a slow news day.......
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from afp the victorian aboriginal education association said instructing girls on how to play the didgeridoo was an extreme cultural indiscretion and has called for the book to be pulped. ok i can believe that it might be a cultural indiscretion whatever that means. no reason not to do it of course and no reason to pulp the book. i bump into cultural indiscretions all the time most recently from ...
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st paul minnesota afp the economy may be the number one issue in the white house race but the republican national convention has yet to dwell on the troubles of americans trying to make ends meet. vice presidenti al pick sarah palin and party stalwarts wednesday argued democratic presidential candidate barack obama would swamp hopes of growth by dumping a massive tax burden on the slowing us eco...
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photo via ppq wegen des zuletzt zwar nicht gewachsenen aber erfolgreich zur fllung des sommerlochs verwendeten missbrauchs von daten im internet wollen bund und lnder den datenschutz mit strengeren regeln und hheren strafen verstrken. bundesinnenminister wolfgang schuble kndigt an dass daten knftig nur noch mit ausdrcklicher einwilligung weitergegeben werden drfen. dazu sollen die besitzer von da...
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not only structurally but according to this report in substance as well posing some theological difficulties. us megamosques muslim tradition with us convenience from afp september 4washington afp as islam makes inroads in the united states american muslims are setting up megamosques that combine religious tradition with typical american convenienc e. modell ed on the huge noncatholic churches ...
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squarely in the category of i dont know what to think about this. from boing boingthe victorian aboriginal education association has called for the australian edition of the daring book for girls to be pulped because it teaches girls how to pay the didgeridoo. the organization says women who play the instrument will be cursed with infertility.......
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more polling on the womens vote previously documented to not be breaking vicepresident palins way. a new poll supports the idea you can like someone and not vote for them. prespeech an emilys list poll women voters remain unswayed by the republican choice of antiabortion devout christian sarah palin for vice president according to a new poll released wednesday. white house hopeful john mccain ele...
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we have received a report from a spectator at tuesday nights u.s. open in queens. to her surprise you can smoke on the grounds and in the stadium. i guess in bloombergs world if you can afford dunhills or nat shermans its perfectly acceptable to smoke... i never saw so many black and gold butts in one place. our correspondent says the racial mix of the crowd at arthur ashe stadium was roughly 200...
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small business can be a powerful force for change but its potential to transform societies can be significantly undermined by political actions.a this is the message the russian business community is sending to the rest of the world. the countrys recent actions in the caucasus region generated a lot of criticism from nations near and far. while the world powers are mulling over a proper response t...
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20 minutes the french free daily will undergo a makeover this november.the newspaper will create more space for photos and change the font. it will not reduce the editorial content. management wants to make the newspaper more visual spacious and clearer. these changes at the newspaper have been in the pipeline for sometime.the editorinchief johan hufnagel of 20minutes.fr was fired recently due to ...
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join the club. regardless playing a few clips of the 17 minute movie fitna was enough to get his muslim counterpart to denounce him as a jewish racist against islam behaving immorally and illegally. antiislam film makes mideast debut in israel from afp september 3jerusalem afp a controversial dutch film linking islam to terrorism received a rare public airing in the middle east on wednesday when ...
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.... but when things happen the whole federal team pulled together to make it happen he said. as an example he noted that the pentagon provided airplanes to help evacuate hospitals in stormhit areas.......
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rama yade die franzasische staatsministerin far menschenrechte hat bestatigt dass sie bei den vereinten nationen einen antrag zur umfassenden entkriminalisierung der homosexualitat einbringen will. rama yade c foto www.diplom atie.gouv. fr bereits im mai hatte die franzasische staatsministerin far menschenrechte und auaere angelegenheiten ramatoulaye genannt rama yade bei einem treffen mit schwu...
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un alaphant dasie est retourna a kunming apras une cure de dasintoxication de trois ans dans la province de hainan dans lextramesud de la chine. lalaphant xiguangmale de 4 ans est devenu accro en mars 2005 a la drogue apras avoir manga une banane recouverte dharoane. il faisait partie des six alaphants attiras le long de la frontiare avec le myanmar par des trafiquants danimaux qui ava...
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according to the afp apple is in the final stages of speaks with china mobile to bring the iphone to the worlds fastest growing economy. apparently the two companies are likely to call on a deal in the near future though china mobiles spokesman declined to comment. theres no doubt apple could benefit from the vast chinese market even if only 1 of china mobiles users end up buying the device. a sin...
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filed under winethe latest tool in the battle against counterfeit vintage wines is rather high tech. antique wine company in london asked guegans centre for nuclear studies to create technology that zaps bottles with ion beams generated by a particle accelerator. the beams are meant to determine how old the glass in the bottles is and where it originated from. they can compare the suspicious bot...
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...vietnam veteran who has worked in congress for more than two decades. in a similar poll conducted in august mccain had a 35 point lead over obama said geoff garin from pollsters garinharty ang. htt pafp.googl e.comartic lealeqm5g1 0ymhtrwb1g hq8olkekxd hvwiqq t he strategy tactic came out the wrong way huh......
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clothing store chain uniqlo has announced plans to build new stores in russia india and singapore fast retailing co. said it hoped to open a store in russia as soon as possible as part of a global expansion that will also see it open the doors to the first uniqlo outlet in singapore in the first half of 2009. the company is eyeing a foray into india while expanding in vietnam and setting up an off...
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a dutch government commission came up with a plan to prevent flooding in spite of climate change during the next two centuries. predicting a sea level rise of between 0.65 and 1.3 metres 2.15 and 4.3 feet by 2100 and up to four metres by 2200 the commission said the chances of flooding multiplied 100fold with every 1.3 metre rise in the sea level. the netherlands nearly twothirds of which lies be...
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earlier this week the wall street journal published an article under the headline animal clones offspring are in food supply. why is this news after all in january the fda ruled on the basis of the scientific evidence that ...meat and milk from clones of cattle swine and goats and the offspring of clones from any species traditionally consumed as food are as safe to eat as food from convention...
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y es que dios los craa y ellos e juntan que decaa mi abuela.a rojo y verde el uno para el otro unidos por el ansia liberticida iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad told bolivias visiting leftwing president evo morales on monday their two nations are natural allies and would boost energy ties state media reported. the two revolutionary nations and the governments of iran and bolivia are natural al...
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