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- Protest leaders to meet president after mass Mexican marches
- MEXICO CITY AFP — The organizers of mass marches in which white-clad protesters lit up the streets of Mexico to protest escalating violence were Sunday to hand in their demands to the president. Towns and cities across the country's 32 states took part in Saturday's "Iluminemos Mexico" or "Let's...
- Research articles 2008-08-30
- Aid groups warn of looming Kenyan humanitarian crisis
- NAIROBI AFP — Aid groups on Sunday warned of a looming humanitarian emergency after post-election violence in Kenya as teams struggled to access tens of thousands of displaced civilians across the country. With widespread insecurity and supplies close to depletion, field teams said their worst fears were mainly for...
- Research articles 2008-01-06
- US general tours West Bank troublespot
- NABLUS, West Bank AFP — The US general trying to help revamp Palestinian security visited a key West Bank troublespot on Thursday where 500 extra police are to deploy under a plan to combat insecurity. Security coordinator US General Keith Dayton met Palestinian security officials and governor Jamal al-Muhaissen...
- Research articles 2007-10-25
- The freest black man in America: Clarence Thomas, associate justice from Pin Point, Ga
- TO be born into a minority group is, among other things, to be born into a collective experience of insecurity. Put differently, it is to be born into a group of nervous people. If you are born black in America, as has been my own fate, then you are born...
- Research articles 2007-10-22
- Tons of Saudi dates for Afghan children
- KABUL AFP — Saudi Arabia has given two million dollars of dates to supplement the diet of Afghan children who lack proper nutrition because of insecurity and disasters, the World Food Programme said Wednesday. The 2,000 tons of dates will be given to given to children at primary schools,...
- Research articles 2007-09-12
- Somali gunmen attack Mogadishu's airport
- MOGADISHU AFP — Gunmen fired explosives into the main airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu as insurgents stepped up attacks in the city, officials said Friday. They said there were no casualties, but the report was not independently confirmed. "I saw the attack and was scared," said Mohammed...
- Research articles 2007-02-22
- If not Bush, who is pushing biofuels?
- PF Washington consultant Jim Wiesemeyer attended a National Pork Producers Council NPPC meeting last week. Veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward addressed the group, and Jim had a chance to ask Woodward about the Bush administration's strategy to deal with energy security or insecurity. Woodward said,...
- Research articles 2006-12-02
- US warns Kenya on corruption, tribal politics as polls approach
- NAIROBI AFP — The United States has delivered a firm warning to key east Africa ally Kenya that endemic corruption, rampant tribal politics and crime are threatening its stability as 2007 elections approach. In the second such stern message delivered by a western government to Nairobi this month, US ambassador...
- Research articles 2006-11-21
- UN appeals for end to Mideast stalemate amid Palestinian suffering
- NABLUS, West Bank AFP — The UN relief agency in the cash-strapped Palestinian territories UNWRA appealed for a political solution to the stalemate in peace talks with Israel. With the impasse dragging on, UNRWA deputy head Fillipo Grandi said public services were on the verge of collapse, poverty was increasing...
- Research articles 2006-10-27
- Reid: The Bush Administration Fails on Data Security Again (2/2)
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid today issued the following statement on news that the Commerce Department has lost over 1,100 computers, putting the personal information of thousands at risk. This failure is the latest in a string of gross errors at nearly every agency...
- Research articles 2006-09-22
- Reid: The Bush Administration Fails on Data Security Again
- To: National DeskContact: Jim Manley or Rebecca Kirszner, 202-224-2939, both for the Senate Democratic Leader Harry ReidWASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid today issued the following statement on news that the Commerce Department has lost over 1,100 computers, putting the personal information of thousands at...
- Research articles 2006-09-22
- Oxfam closes two offices in Darfur after abduction
- KHARTOUM AFP — The British aid organisation Oxfam has announced the closure of two of its offices in Sudan's war-torn western region of Darfur following the abduction of a Sudanese employee. "The Sudanese staff member, who was taken during the hijacking of an Oxfam vehicle, has now been missing...
- Research articles 2006-07-10
- There never was an icon of American manhood to compare with the cowboy
- There never was an icon of American manhood to compare with the cowboy. For decades, from Tex Ritter and Hopalong Cassidy, through Gary Cooper and John Wayne, down to the spaghetti westerns of the 1960s, these rugged, self-reliant heroes rode and swaggered across our movie and TV screens, teaching us...
- Research articles 2006-03-13
- Somali president appeals for aid as famine threatens Horn of Africa
- NAIROBI AFP — Somalia's transitional president appealed for 60 million dollars in urgent aid for some two million southern Somalis facing severe food and water shortages amid an increasing threat of famine across large swaths of the drought-stricken Horn of Africa. In a statement released as drought and pre-famine...
- Research articles 2005-12-29
- Palestinian police, MPs protest security chaos
- GAZA CITY AFP — Dozens of armed policemen burst into a Palestinian parliament building to protest against spiralling insecurity over the first deadly internecine clashes since Israel left the Gaza Strip last month. Three people, including a police officer, were killed in Gaza City late Sunday in clashes that...
- Research articles 2005-10-03
- 'We're all in same boat' of Lebanon insecurity: DM
- BEIRUT AFP — Defence Minister Elias Murr has said insecurity in Lebanon was so rife that he has had to take refuge abroad, as Beirut prepared to seek US and French aid in bringing a halt to a series of bomb attacks. "I'm fed up after what happened to...
- Research articles 2005-09-27
- Nearly a million people face food shortage in Somalia: UN
- NAIROBI AFP — Nearly a million people, including displaced civilians, face food shortages in Somalia, a shattered African nation that is struggling to emerge from 14 years of interclan fighting, the United Nations said. The latest edition of the UN's monthly report on the humanitarian situation in Somalia said...
- Research articles 2005-09-15
- Britain more dangerous than a jungle: Iran cleric
- TEHRAN AFP — Britain is a terrible place to live and anti-terrorist laws there make life as an animal in a jungle far safer, a top Iranian cleric said. "Day by day, corruption, tyranny, felony, insecurity and different dangers are attacking human society. Just look at the fight against...
- Research articles 2005-08-26
- In the shadow of the ministry of terror; CULTURE OF FEAR With the
- When the American essayist and critic HL Mencken wrote in 1918 that "the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamourous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary" he can hardly have suspected...
- Research articles 2004-11-28
- Insecurity persists in Darfur: UN representative
- GENEVA AFP ? Insecurity and human rights violations continued in Sudan's strife-torn western region of Darfur, according to a representative of the UN secretary-general, who stressed his concern over the return of displaced persons to the region. Francis Deng said Monday after a mission to Sudan from July 25...
- Research articles 2004-08-03
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