EDA media director Esraa Abdel Fattah should organize a group to quickly field an entire slate of candidates for the next election.
Nasa scientist finds 'evidence of life' in meteorites If this is validated then some religious theories should be thrown out including Jewish, Christian, Mormon etc.
Saudi Arabia March 11 protesters will face Sharia law violations and Saudi laws. Too late to restore Mubarak but other leaders including Iran's can ban protests. Gaddafi can also try to stop protests now using Sharia law. Does US support this anti democratic move?
China showcases their methods of control. Remaining Middle East rulers will learn from the Chinese how to control crowds in the Internet age. They are internet savvy and probably plant many of these assemblies to round up dissidents before they can organize further.
"Separately, Beijing officials announced Wednesday that they intended to monitor the movements of millions of residents by means of information transmitted by their cellphones.
" About 65 percent of all community college students nationwide need some form of remedial education, with students' shortcomings in math outnumbering those in reading by 2 to 1"
UK offers to airlift 6,000 Egyptians sounds good but why don't they use ships from Egypt or other nearby countries to move all the Egyptians who are in Tunisia.
"The young Arab women and men of Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and Yemen have proved that they are willing to die to build a better future. They yearn for freedom, opportunity and democracy.
Mr. Dewhirst, from Leeds, had been teaching English in Libya.
Friedman urges Obama to support the youth of Egypt. While VP asks citizens to respect Mubarak and traditions, Friedman is urging US to side with the youth of Egypt.
Google employee brings another wave of protest to Tahrir Square
"The French government seriously considered sending its paratroopers to save former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia.
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Sarkozy's Quebec comments being twisted, French diplomat says RHÉAL SÉGUIN AND LES PERREAUX Globe and Mail Update October 18, 2008 at 8:22 PM EDT
"The three young women, all in their 20s and all black, ended up detained for shoplifting... We were racially profiled. It was as simple as that."
"Leading Indian writer Amitav Ghosh's critically acclaimed new novel Sea of Poppies is set during a time when opium trade out of India was flourishing during British rule. "
"Prosecutors in Britain have discussed the device at length, suggesting the finished product was to have been shipped to London.
"(CNN) -- A man, incensed that a 6-year-old girl chose to walk through a path reserved for upper caste villagers, pushed her into burning embers, police in north India said Wednesday. She was seriously burned."
"Education officials in Erie and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, were soimpressed with the quantitative skills of JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley that they bought interest-rate swaps without ever knowing the price. "
"Senator John McCain said that, if elected, he would do what other presidents had tried but failed to do: cut government spending sharply enough to reduce the budget deficit while lowering taxes at the same time."
Monday's collapse in world markets was apparently caused by 'computer genius' Jérôme Kerviel a '31-year-old rogue trader' at Société Générale. This cause the Fed to react and cut by 75 basis points ahead of its meeting and avert an even larger drop in the US stock markets.
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From a marketwatch.com article : MBIA woes exacerbated by ChannelRe crisis News comes after reinsurers say Bermuda firm's investments are worthless By Alistair Barr, MarketWatch Last update: 5:52 p.m. EST Jan.
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"Shares of Ambac and rival MBIA Inc. were down by 60% and 30%, respectively, in early trading. The news also roiled financials stocks since bond insurers guarantee debt held by some of the nation's largest banks."
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From today's NYTimes articles This Is the Sound of a Bubble Bursting , and Officials Falling Behind on Mortgage Fraud Cases its easier to comprehend BBC's article on subprime …
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Nigeria, an Opec-member nation producing about 2.4m barrels of crude oil a day, is a top supplier to the US, but almost all of its petroleum products are imported.
Saudi Arabia said Monday it will begin enforcing a law that allows only females to work in women's lingerie and apparel stores, despite disapproval from the country's top cleric.
Occupy Wall Street has responded to their eviction from Zuccotti Park with a day of action that is culminating in 10,000+ protesters filling up Foley Square. With Zuccoti Park too full to contain the Occupiers, they started a march.
One shudders to imagine what noxious vapors swirled through the skull of French President Nicholas Sarkozy as he told Barack Obama that Binyamin Netanyahu was a “liar.” No-one has told the truth more clearly than Netanyahu: as long as the Palestinians cannot brin …
Paris police say they have seized nearly 300 tons of contraband souvenirs — mostly miniature Eiffel Towers — in a crackdown targeting illegal vendors of such trinkets in tourist areas.
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