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Israel to open peace talks with security, water demands
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 20:08.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to open the indirect talks with the Palestinian Authority this week with a discussion of the security arrangements in the West Bank and of water resources. read more »
Napoleon: Pro or Con: 7th period.
Submitted by Ms. AuCoin on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 12:43.Refer to the following questions and guidelines:
1. What were his strengths and were weaknesses?
2. What is your position? read more »
Napoleon: Pro or Con?
Submitted by Ms. AuCoin on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 11:49.Refer to the following questions and guidelines:
1. What were his strengths and were weaknesses?
2. What is your position? read more »
Pope Benedict XVI calls for Palestinian state on visit to refugee camp
Submitted by newscaster on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 19:35.The Pope gave his most forthright endorsement of a Palestinian state yesterday as his Holy Land pilgrimage took him to a refugee camp in the shadow of Israel’s controversial “separation barrier” read more »
Latest H1N1 developments from officials
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Key developments on H1N1 (swine flu) outbreaks, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization and government officials: read more »
Not Aiding Africa
Submitted by newscaster on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 17:46.Aid to Africa has been under fire recently due to the continuing poverty and violence in many African countries. In this editorial, Greg Mills looks at some of the problems with aid to Africa. read more »
The Other Man's Burden
Submitted by Ms. AuCoin on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 10:01.We read Rudyard Kipling's "White Man's Burden" in class. Here are a few lines for review:
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile read more »
Letters/Questions to any Philisophe.
Submitted by Ms. AuCoin on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 08:25.Choose any one of the following thinkers: Rousseau, Voltaire, or John Locke. Write them a question you would ask them, were you to ask for their advice, OR to question/debate their philosophies. read more »
Economists warn of risk of long-term damage [Bangkok]
Submitted by Newsbyte on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 21:05.Experts fear lasting drop in investment read more »
Russia and Georgia Clash Over Separatist Region
Submitted by newscaster on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 09:37.Russia conducted airstrikes on Georgian targets on Friday evening, escalating the conflict in a separatist area of Georgia that is shaping into a test of the power and military reach of an emboldened read more »
Medvedev says Russia will continue active role in S.Caucasus
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 12:40.MOSCOW, August 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's president said on Monday that Russia will continue its active role in the South Caucasus after the current conflict, and pledged to see through the operation read more »
Zimbabweans Call for International Peacekeeping Intervention
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 06/23/2008 - 22:35.Zimbabweans who have been scarred by weeks of ongoing violence that is causing significant loss of lives and property are reportedly calling for the intervention of an international peacekeeping force read more »
Hamas offers truce in return for 1967 borders: No Israeli response, but U.S. rejects it as 'no change'
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The leader of Hamas said Monday that his Palestinian militant group would offer Israel a 10-year "hudna," or truce, as implicit proof of recognition of Israel if it withdrew from all lands it seized i read more »
India asks Dalai Lama to refrain from political activities
Submitted by newscaster on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 20:18.New Delhi: India has asked the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, not to engage in political activities that could hurt the country’s ties with China, media reports said on Tuesday. read more »
Crusaders 'left genetic legacy'
Submitted by newscaster on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 07:31.Scientists have detected the faint genetic traces left by medieval crusaders in the Middle East. read more »
Chinese Police Fire Tear-Gas at Protesting Tibetan Monks (Tibetan Reporting)
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/16/2008 - 18:49.KATHMANDU—Armed Chinese police fired tear-gas Tuesday to disperse a crowd of several hundred protesting Tibetan Buddhist monks near the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, RFA's Tibetan service reports. read more »
Full disclosure: Dalai coterie's secessionist attempts doomed to fail (Chinese News Source)
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/16/2008 - 18:39.LHASA, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Memories of horror were alive again. read more »
US Public Losing Interest in Iraq As News Coverage Wanes
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A sharp fall in US media coverage of the Iraq war has left Americans less interested in and knowledgeable about the conflict, a report by the independent Pew Research Center showed Wednesday. read more »
CIA sees Taliban role in killing of Bhutto
Submitted by newscaster on Sun, 01/20/2008 - 10:59.The CIA thinks that Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mahsud and his associates, some of them linked to al-Qaida, were responsible for the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir read more »
CIA scapegoats al-Qaeda over BB killing
Submitted by newscaster on Sun, 01/20/2008 - 10:40.CIA Director Michael Hayden has blamed al-Qaeda and allies of a Pakistani tribal leader for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. read more »
Bread, the (subsidized) staff of life in Egypt
Submitted by newscaster on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 22:41."Get out! Get back! Get back! read more »
US Role in Pakistan (Opinion)
Submitted by newscaster on Thu, 01/03/2008 - 00:13.The brutal and bloody assassination of Benazir Bhutto, leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and former prime minister, continues to reverberate. In part, this is because she was a woman. read more »
Speech Dilemma (OPINION, US Free Speech vs Korean Free Speech)
Submitted by newscaster on Sun, 12/16/2007 - 21:24.An American investigative news program, 20/20, aired a report that sheds light on the dark side of free speech in America and the difference in the treatment of speech in America vs. Korea. read more »
ADL commends N.Y. police for arrests in anti-Semitic subway attack
Submitted by newscaster on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 07:09.The Anti Defamation League (ADL) applauded on Wednesday the New York City Police for arresting ten individuals suspected of carrying out an anti-Semitic attack against four students on the Subway on F read more »
Rafsanjani: US officials obstinacy on Iran nuclear program reveals hostility
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Chairman of Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Sunday that obstinacy of the US officials towards Iranian nuclear program indicated their hostility toward Iran. read more »
