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- Sunshine and Shadow in Rwanda's Rural Housing ...The gleam of new corrugated iron sheets shimmers through the blue-green haze that veils Rwanda's rural valleys and hillsides. It is a visible sign of Rwanda's metamorphosis from a nation devastated by genocide seventeen years ago to the fastest modernising state on the continent.
- BAHRAIN: McCarthyism in Manama?As the savage crackdown on the majority Shiite opposition movement drags on in Bahrain, King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa's military regime – backed by the hefty armed forces of Sunni- dominated Saudi Arabia – has moved from launching outright assaults on peaceful protestors on the streets ...
- YEMEN: Children Dragged Into Dangerous ProtestsChildren are increasingly facing frontline risks at Yemen's anti-government protests. Parents are bringing them to demonstrations in the belief that they too are necessary for sacrifices in the revolution against President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
- HEALTH: Fukushima, Chernobyl Raise Questions a ...The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan and the 25th anniversary of the catastrophe in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine have thrown into relief contradictions in the role played by the World Health Organisation, which civil society organisations have spent years pointing out.
- Washington Failing to Understand Iran's OppositionThe popular uprisings that have brought turmoil to Arab countries across the Middle East and North Africa have also underscored Washington's dearth of knowledge about forces on the ground in authoritarian states in the Middle East. One of the largest questions bedeviling policy makers ...
Scoop - NZ
- Oil companies aiding Lybian 'rebel' force.Khalifa Hifter, one of two rebel military commanders vying for the top command position over Free Libyan Forces in Libya, in his office at the Gulf Oil Co. in Benghazi on Tuesday. The first concrete report of weapons from foreign donors reaching the Libyan rebels came Tuesday, but significant ...
- CONTROL OF THE INTERNETA third way that the powers-that-be are attacking the blogosphere is through copyright. "The elites have seemingly launched a concerted attack against the blogosphere's many news aggregators, hoping to intimidate them by setting legal precedents that make it unfeasible for such alternative news ...
- Wikileaks: The Gitmo Files On Sunday April 24, 2011 WikiLeaks began publishing 779 secret files from the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison camp. The details for every detainee will be released daily over the coming month. By October 2004, two years into his detention at the Guantánamo Bay prison, Ali Abdullah Ahmed had e ...
- WikiLeaks reveals Hicks, Habib Gitmo files Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has released hundreds of secret files on Guantanamo Bay detainees, including those of Australians David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib.
- SAS faces recruitment crisisThe SAS is facing a recruitment crisis because soldiers do not have time to train for demanding selection tests, the head of the infantry has warned.
Independent - London
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- William Hague backs Syria reformsIt is "not too late" for Syrian president Bashar Assad to abandon brutal repression of his people, Foreign Secretary William Hague insisted today.
- 'Foreign troops' killed in Kabul airport attackForeign troops were among a number of people killed and wounded when an Afghan Army officer opened fire after an argument at Kabul's airport today.
- Morgan's modest viewing figures give his criti ...For a man who uses Twitter to broadcast his every thought, deed, and minor foray into the public eye, Piers Morgan has been surprisingly slow to update followers about the smattering of fresh headlines that pertain to the performance of his nightly talk show on the rolling news channel CNN.
- Bernanke to confront his critics as US economi ...Weakening economic growth and sliding house prices in the world's largest economy form the backdrop to the first-ever press conference by a Federal Reserve chairman, to be held after the US central bank makes its latest interest rate decision today.
Rogue Government.com
- Geithner Defends So Called Strong Dollar Policy US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner vowed Tuesday that the United States would never follow a strategy to weaken the US dollar.
- Guantanamo Bay files: Al-Qaida assassin worke ...An al-Qaida operative accused of bombing two Christian churches and a luxury hotel in Pakistan in 2002 was at the same time working for British intelligence, according to secret files on detainees who were shipped to the US military's Guantánamo Bay prison camp.
- 540 Taliban militants flee Kandahar jail At least 540 Taliban militants, including 106 commanders, have escaped from Kandahar central prison in southern Afghanistan, an official says.
- UN Prepares to Debate Whether 'Mother Earth' ...A bloc of mostly socialist governments lead by Bolivia have put the issue on the General Assembly agenda to discuss the creation of a U.N. treaty that would grant the same rights found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to Mother Nature.
- World's Largest Atom Smasher May Have Found G ...A rumor is floating around the physics community that the world's largest atom smasher may have detected a long-sought subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle."
Innovation Canada
- Defining religious freedomFor some, the freedom to practise their religion is vitally important while for others, the freedom not to practise any religion is equally so. How does Canada balance the rights and freedoms of its multicultural population with its state-defined limits on religious freedom? University of Ottawa ...
- Manitoba gets physicalJonathan McGavock is unequivocal and unapologetic. He’s seriously worried about the next generation of Canadian kids. “Ninety percent are physically inactive, with 25 to 30 percent being overweight or obese,” says the University of Manitoba researcher. “Chronic medical conditions like type 2 dia ...
- Designing consumersJake Nickell and Jacob DeHart have made millions selling unique artistic T-shirts. The kicker is, they didn’t even design them. The duo owns Threadless, a profitable online community where users post T-shirt designs, vote on their favourites and then buy them. For coordinating the process, Inc. ...
- Sharing culture
- Targeting tumoursTargeting a cancerous tumour with localized, high-concentration chemotherapy drugs can be an effective way of destroying a tumour, but surrounding healthy tissue often gets damaged in the process. Now, thanks to a world-first in remote-controlled delivery of anti-cancer drugs developed at École ...
Signs of the times
- US: Nicolas Cage investigated for child abuse ...A police report from Nicolas Cage's arrest earlier this month suggests the actor might have physically harmed his son before he was taken into custody. Cage, who was arrested in New Orleans on April 16 following an alleged physical altercation with his wife, Alice Kim, "fell while holding" the ...
- Royal Wedding Bells Fall on Deaf EarsMany parties not for nuptials When Prince William marries Catherine Middleton, all Britons should be celebrating, or so says Prime Minister David Cameron, who has been working hard to whip up public enthusiasm for the extravaganza. Setting an example, the Camerons are planning to throw their ...
- FLASHBACK: The Royal Wedding: Who Pays the Bill?Who foots the bill for The Wedding of the Century? Peter Hunt, BBC's royal correspondent, looks at who will pay for Prince William and Kate Middleton's royal nuptials. Estimate Cost of Wedding "We're not in Elton John territory," one royal official told me when discussing the possible cost of ...
- Royal wedding to hurt Britain's economyLet's hope Friday's big blowout is a right royal good time. Because thanks in part to a quirk in the calendar, it's set to take a pretty heavy toll on Britain's economy -- which isn't in great health already. Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that Friday will be a national holiday -- ...
- Titanic's Unknown Child Given New, Final IdentityFive days after the passenger ship the Titanic sank, the crew of the rescue ship Mackay-Bennett pulled the body of a fair-haired, roughly 2-year-old boy out of the Atlantic Ocean on April 21, 1912. Along with many other victims, his body went to a cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the cre ...
The Galloping Beaver
- Omar's crib . . .IT REALLY PISSES ME OFF that nobody has asked our candidates about getting Omar out of Gitmo. Last week, Wikileaks released the operating manual for Omar's world, and according to Ryan Singel at WIRED, it's not pretty, organized by the same gang who set up Abu Ghraib:The manual also includes ins ...
- The possible...Amid the worry about split votes and Con majorities, there's a chance we'll see an NDP minority when the polls close. With numbers like these, it could happen. On those numbers...there's a lot of teeth gnashing about how these number are splitting votes and killing the chances of Liberals getti ...
- What a way to go . . .The Euthanasia Coaster. “Euthanasia Coaster” is a hypothetical euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being. Riding the coaster’s track, the rider is subjected to a series of intensive motion elements tha ...
- Way cool . . .$5,800.00, unfortunately.
- Stephen Harper might well be......the best thing ever to happen to the federal NDP. I believe this is called a boomerang effect.
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