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Cuenca Ecuador
July 1st, 2010 • World
Tags: Travel
Cuenca Ecuador. If you are looking for a host country for retirement or just simply to go for a holiday, here the latest pact on Cuenca Ecuador. Ecuador and Peru active on Wednesday a administrative cooperation acceding during a affair of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) in Cuenca city, south of Ecuador. Read more »
Hurricane Alex
June 30th, 2010 • 1 comment World
Tags: Hurricane Alex, Mexican Gulf, oil-spill
Hurricane Alex – The 1st Atlantic blow of the year bashed advanced against a blow with the Mexican Gulf bank and south Texas on Wednesday, whipping up aerial after-effects that balked oil-spill cleanup efforts and carrying tar assurance and globs of awkward assimilate already decrepit beaches.
Hurricane Alex abounding anchorage and affected bags of bodies to abandon fishing villages as it bore bottomward on the northeastern Mexican coast.
Braving accumbent bedding of rain, Mexican marines went door-to-door in the baby fishing association of Playa Bagdad, aggravating to abandon villagers from broken board shacks.
Earthquake Mexico
June 30th, 2010 • World
Tags: Earthquake mexico
Earthquake mexico – An able convulsion hit southern Mexico’s Oaxaca this very early Wednesday morning the U.S. Geological Survey reported.The consequence 6.5 convulse ashamed the arena at 2:22 a.m. bounded time and was centered about 350km afar south-southeast of Mexico City. Read more »
Flotilla incident
June 3rd, 2010 • World
Tags: Flotilla
Flotilla incident. There is no agnosticism that it is President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, President Nasser’s successor, to whom Abdel Bari Atwan principally refers; and there is no doubt, too, that the “flotilla affair” marks a watershed moment for Egypt – and to a bottom admeasurement for Saudi Arabia. Read more »
Cyclone Phet towards Oman
June 2nd, 2010 • Headlines, World
Cyclone Phet towards Oman. Phet was not accepted to accomplish landfall in Oman, but should instead about-face to brush alongside to the Sultanate’s bank afore roaring northeast against Pakistan, according to close storm watch website www.tropicalstormrisk.com. Read more »
Sarah Ferguson drinking
May 31st, 2010 • Headlines, People, Politics, World
Tags: Sarah Ferguson
Sarah Ferguson tells Winfrey she had been drinking. Sarah Ferguson says she had been drinking and was “not in my right place” when she was caught on video offering access to her former husband, Prince Andrew, for $724,000.
The Duchess of York made the comments to talk show host Oprah Winfrey in an interview to air Tuesday. The interview was taped Friday in Los Angeles, and excerpts were released Monday by Winfrey’s Harpo Productions. Read more »
Thai Parliament debates crackdown
May 31st, 2010 • Headlines, World
Tags: Thailand
Thailand’s House of Representatives began debate Monday on a censure motion against the coalition government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, focusing on its deadly crackdown on anti-government Red Shirt protesters earlier this month.
According to AP, Thai Parliament debates crackdown on Red protest. The opposition Puea Thai Party alleges the army used excessive force that resulted in civilian casualties when it moved in using live ammunition to end the two-month-long protest. The thousands of Red Shirts camped in the heart of the Thai capital had been calling for Abhisit to dissolve Parliament immediately and call new elections. Read more »
CANADA fire
May 31st, 2010 • Headlines, World
Tags: CANADA FIRE
Canada fire. Nine forests in the Haute-Mauricie region of Quebec and over 50 continue to burn. Marcel Trudel said, “It was infernal, we’re up against a real monster,” he added that the flames are massive with height s of up to 30 meters!” The Haute-Mauricie region in central Quebec got hit heavily in the province with 50 fires now ignited. Abitibi-Temiscamingue, Nord-du-Quebec and Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean provinces are also threatened by the fire. Read more »
On Memorial Day
May 31st, 2010 • Headlines, World
Tags: Memorial Day
On Memorial Day, U.S. soldiers in Iraq contemplate ‘forgotten war’. Inside the ornate palace of the late dictator Saddam Hussein, now the main headquarters of U.S. forces in Iraq, dozens of U.S. service members bowed their heads in prayer at a Memorial Day commemoration.
They thought about their families waiting for them to come home. They thought about the fallen comrades lost in the past seven years of occupation and war. They thought about what would come next. Read more »
Turkey Israel recalls
May 31st, 2010 • Headlines, World
Tags: Turkey
Israel’s already strained relationship with Turkey may be another casualty of its navy’s raid on a Turkish-flagged aid ship headed for Gaza that left nine dead. Read more »