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Sunday, September 4, 2005

Castro Offers Medical Aid Assistance For Katrina Relief

Fidel Castro, president of Cuba, has offered the aid of 1500 doctors to help in the storm-torn devastation along the gulf coast. Cuba regularly sends doctors and medical relief to countries hit with natural disasters. Castro said today that he has offered assistance twice and the doctors would be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 29, 2005

Abstain Or Use A Cinch-Sack Garbage Bag

Stephen Lewis, the U.N. secretary-general's special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, has accused the Bush administration of causing a condom shortage in Uganda, threatening to send that nation spiraling into a renewed epidemic of HIV/AIDS. Lewis maintains that Uganda, which has been praised for cutting... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 25, 2005

Gaza And West Bank Offerings Are Not Enough

The recent relocation of Israelis from settlements in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have been anything but totally peaceable, but the forced pullout is happening. The Palestinian Authority is taking over, hopefully for the future creation of a Palestinian state. A peaceful neighbor. But will it... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 14, 2005

Sri Lanka Set To Slide Back Into Civil War

The government of Sri Lanka has arrested 12 people in connection with the assassination of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar late Friday. The immediate suspects were the usual suspects: members of the Tamil Tigers, a revolutionary group fighting for the independence and autonomy of a Tamil state... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 12, 2005

How To Raise The Dead -- Castro And Resurrecting Cuba

Cuba's bewhiskered dictator turns 79 today. He has been in power since 1959. Cuba, it's people, and it's economy have been to hell and -- well, they've been in hell for the past four and a half decades under Castro's own brand of socialism and the United States' refusal to trade with the island... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 23, 2005

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

The young man who was followed into a London subway station, subsequently chased by the Metropolitan police onto a car a shot point blank in front of dozens of startled commuters, has been found to be unconnected with the latest series of bombings, as was previously thought. In an anonymous... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 22, 2005

Going After The Bastards

British police wrestled a man wearing a heavily padded jacket to the floor of a subway carriage today and shot him five times, killing him, right in front of shocked commuters. It is unclear as yet whether or not the man was one of the four men that British television has been showing as wanted for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 21, 2005

Copycat or al-Qaeda?

Four more bombs went off in London today, eerily following the same pattern as the the bombs that killed 52 people exactly two weeks ago -- three in subway cars and stations, one on a bus. The bombs went off but they did not explode, only their detonators went off, leaving experts to wonder as to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 14, 2005

All Four London Bombings By Suicide Bombers

London Metropolitan police have identified four men they beleive carried the bombs into the subway stations and aboard a double-decker bus that killed at least 53 last week. Two of them were native Brits. One was Jamaican. One was Pakistani. All were British citizens. All were of Arab extraction.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 9, 2005

Making Poverty History: Rhetoric Over Reality

"If we implement this, we will make poverty history," Blair told reporters. No untruer words have ever been spoken, unfortunately for Mr. Blair. Poverty will never be history. Sadly, the tiny pittance being pledged over the next five years from the G-8 Summit member nations will barely dent what... Sign in to see full entry.

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