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- Spanish cabinet members in tie revolt
- MADRID AFP — A revolt was brewing in Spain's cabinet Thursday as members refused to wear ties in parliament, aiming to save energy and fight global warming by removing the need for the air conditioning to be turned up. Labour Minister Celestino Corbacho took off his tie in front...
- Research articles 2008-07-03
- Warsaw ghetto uprising commander remembers what drove revolt
- WARSAW AFP — As Poland prepares to commemorate the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis, the last leader of the Jewish revolt is still crystal clear about what drove him and his comrades to take up arms. "We knew perfectly well that there was no way we could...
- Research articles 2008-04-13
- Kashmir avalanches kill 22: police
- SRINAGAR, India AFP — Avalanches triggered by the worst snowfall in years killed 22 people and left 15 missing in Indian Kashmir, police said on Saturday, as hundreds of stranded people were evacuated. Kashmir, where a revolt against Indian rule has raged for decades, has been blanketed by snow...
- Research articles 2008-02-09
- Indian Kashmir's lone pathologist says haunted by the dead
- SRINAGAR, India AFP — Mohammed Maqbool, the only pathologist working in insurgency-racked Indian Kashmir, says he wants out of his job before it kills him. After handling thousands of bodies, Maqbool, who started doing autopsies when he was assigned to a government mortuary, says he is "haunted by the...
- Research articles 2007-05-21
- Yemen gets Libyan backing in fight against rebels
- SANAA AFP — Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday received a message from Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi supporting Sanaa's fierce fight against anti-government rebels, a Yemeni official told AFP. Libyan special envoy Suleiman Shuhumi delivered the message just days after Sanaa said it was recalling its ambassador to...
- Research articles 2007-05-19
- Indian 'war of independence' a turning point for subcontinent
- NEW DELHI, May 10, 2007 AFP — The 17th-century Red Fort in Old Delhi with its pockmarked stonework and peeling paint betrays only a glimpse of its former splendour as the seat of the sprawling Mughal Empire. That world with its blend of Hindu and Muslim influences and poetry...
- Research articles 2007-05-09
- Kadhafi warns corruption will lead to 'revolt of the poor'
- TRIPOLI AFP — Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi warned of a revolt by the oil-rich country's poor because of social inequality and the corruption "of senior officials who made themselves rich illegally". "I can still manage the situation and stop an explosive revolt by the poor, faced with the inequality in...
- Research articles 2006-11-14
- Philippines' Estrada marks fifth year in detention as trial resumes
- MANILA AFP — Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada marked his fifth year in detention by returning to the witness stand to defend himself against charges of massive corruption. The former leader is accused of plundering a personal fortune of up to 80 million dollars, allegedly from gambling proceeds and...
- Research articles 2006-04-25
- China's CNOOC stung by shareholder revolt
- HONG KONG AFP — China's largest gas and oil producer CNOOC has been stung by a shareholder revolt against reform plans the company hoped would allow it to expand through buy-outs of parent assets. Independent shareholders rejected a proposal to amend a non-compete undertaking by its state-owned parent China...
- Research articles 2006-01-03
- Little Village lights up San Antonio: Congress closing social site is rich with history
- Just west of the Convention Center lies a cobblestone town that dates back to the 18th century. Located on the south bank of the San Antonio River, La Villita or little village was the city's first neighborhood. Initially used by squatters who used the area to farm outside of the...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- Fragments of Roman-era Biblical parchments found in desert
- JERUSALEM AFP — Fragments of a Biblical manuscript dating back to the last Jewish revolt against Roman rule in 135 AD Judaea, have been uncovered near the Dead Sea with academics hailing it a sensational discovery. After four decades with a dearth of new finds, archaeologists had resigned themselves...
- Research articles 2005-07-15
- Bakiyev wins Kyrgyz presidential election
- BISHKEK AFP — Kyrgyzstan's interim leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev won a landslide presidential election in the Central Asian republic, the first since a revolt ousted former president Askar Akayev in March. Exit polls by three Kyrgyz organisations gave Bakiyev 88 percent of the vote. The closest of his five opponents...
- Research articles 2005-07-10
- Influential cardinal who changed Philippine history dies at 76
- MANILA AFP — The Philippines' influential Cardinal Jaime Sin, the former head of the Catholic Church in this country who helped topple two presidents, died in hospital at age 76, church officials said. Sin died from multiple organ failure after a lengthy struggle with kidney problems and diabetes. ...
- Research articles 2005-06-20
- Yemen rebels seek presidential pardon
- SANAA AFP — Leaders of a Yemeni rebel group involved in an anti-government rebellion that has cost the lives of hundreds of people have appealed for a presidential pardon. The call in a letter signed by the Faithful Youth movement's spiritual leader Badr Eddin al-Huthi came after the authorities...
- Research articles 2005-05-13
- Zaidi extremists pose problem for Yemen
- SANAA AFP — The deaths of hundreds of rebels from Yemen's minority Zaidi sect have plunged the group into disarray but not lifted the threat of more bloodshed based on their anti-US stand and opposition to what they term the "illegitimate" Sanaa regime. More than 400 people were killed...
- Research articles 2005-04-14
- Britain was obsessed with 'evil' Kenyan leader Kenyatta
- LONDON AFP — Britain considered Kenya's nationalist leader Jomo Kenyatta a charismatic and "evil" personality who had to be kept in jail if a rebellion in the then-colony was to be quelled, British archives showed. Kenyatta was sentenced by the British colonial administration in 1952 to seven years of...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Nepal king sacks government, vows to restore democracy in three years
- KATHMANDU AFP — King Gyanendra has dismissed Nepal's coalition government and taken charge of administering the country which is battling a Maoist revolt, as political leaders accuse him of staging a coup. "I have exercised the rights given to the crown under the present constitution and dissolved the government...
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- King of Nepal sacks government and takes over
- KATHMANDU AFP — King Gyanendra dismissed Nepal's coalition government and seized control of the country which is battling a Maoist revolt as political leaders accused him of staging a coup. "I have exercised the rights given to the crown under the present constitution and dissolved the government in the...
- Research articles 2005-01-31
- Why Miss America Can’t Get a Date (Broadcasting and Cable)
- Dumped by ABC over declining ratings, the pageant faces an identity crisis, a revolt by former titleholders and a search for a new home Backstage at ABC's 50th-anniversary telecast of the Miss America pageant, 52 hopefuls were in a tizzy. Seconds before their...
- Research articles 2005-01-03
- Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca
- Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca (1827-1892) was the first president of Brazil. Perhaps his greatest contribution was the assumption of authority in the last days of the empire and his leading role in the establishment of the republic. Manoel Deodoro da Fonseca was born on Aug. 5,...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
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