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prnewswire.com | 2003 | AIA's Team America Rocketry Challenge announces its top 100 teams for national fly-off in May
ARLINGTON, Va., April 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hundreds of students from across the country will meet May 11 at Great Meadow in The Plains, VA to decide the winner of the world's largest student rocket contest. The T... | 658 |
bbc.co.uk | 2003 | Human rights and minority interests are a sensitive matter in many countries, but in Brazil they are now at the centre of an unprecedented controversy.
The politician charged with overseeing these issues in the lower house of Brazil's congress stands accused of racism and homophobia.
It is a claim that pastor and Chris... | 743 |
themoscowtimes.com | 2003 | KUMTOR, Kyrgyzstan — In an impoverished young nation with a habit of overthrowing its rulers, the future now balances on a mountain of gold at the top of the world, where the air is so thin that collapsing visitors may be rushed to a pressure chamber for oxygen.
After two revolutions in eight years, nationalists in Kyr... | 2,472 |
nzherald.co.nz | 2003 | An architect's impression of the new Science Centre to be built at Auckland University. Photo / Supplied
Despite millions of dollars of investment to provide state-of-the-art facilities, international competitors are outspending us and our universities are slipping in global rankings.
Special report: Auckland universit... | 1,286 |
salon.com | 2003 | The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that legendary film critic Roger Ebert has died. Ebert was 70 years old.
The Sun-Times, home of Ebert’s review column for 46 years, wrote on Thursday that Ebert “was without question the nation’s most prominent and influential film critic.” He “had been in poor health over the past de... | 605 |
spiegel.de | 2003 | Take a moment to imagine it the other way around: A Syrian dictator with a full beard -- an Islamist harboring al-Qaida sympathies -- has the Christian population of his country shot, starved and bombed, lets fanatical militias massacre non-believers and burns the country down to ashes. Were that the case, an alliance ... | 1,754 |
voanews.com | 2003 | The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has praised the United States’ efforts in helping the court ensure that perpetrators of war crimes are brought to justice.
Fatou Bensouda says the arrest warrants issued against leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels still hold even though the Ugandan... | 1,406 |
cpj.org | 2003 | New York, April 5, 2013–Police in Somalia say they have been holding a woman in custody for much of this week after they say questions were raised about the veracity of reports that a journalist was fatally shot in Mogadishu on March 24.
Police said they have been questioning the woman in connection with reports that g... | 243 |
spiegel.de | 2003 | When it comes to the integration of Germany's Muslim minority, the center-left Social Democrats tend to be much less hard-line than Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives. But on Wednesday evening, SPD chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrück may have gone a step too far when he waded into what in the past has been a hor... | 789 |
usatoday.com | 2003 | Much-ballyhooed luxury ship to sail from NYC, Miami
One of the most luxurious cruise ships to debut over the past decade will visit the USA for the first time in 2014.
Hapag-Lloyd Cruises on Tuesday announced the 516-passenger Europa 2 will make a maiden call in New York from Dec. 4 to 6, 2014 before setting sail on a ... | 503 |
newsok.com | 2003 | OG&E, Google deal offers transparency on data center funding, but questions remain
Oklahoma state senate candidate found dead near Texas border
Judge refuses to dismiss charge against Epic Charter Schools co-founders
Lawmakers pass criminal penalties for providing abortion pills
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theguardian.com | 2003 | The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has heeded a call from a conservative clerical group to halt the broadcast of "un-Islamic" films and serials, issuing a vague decree that some see as a move to stifle debate before presidential elections next year or even to placate the Taliban.
The Ulema Council complained to Karzai... | 475 |
dawn.com | 2003 | AS the great defenders of state sovereignty continue their TV-friendly holy crusades against foreign domination, the voices that seek to expose the actual working of global structures of domination become increasingly marginal.
Very few Pakistanis know that the ninth ministerial summit of the World Trade Organisation (... | 1,207 |
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | 2003 | SAO PAULO: The post-election tension in Venezuela that claimed seven lives on Monday and led to massive pro- and anti-government demonstrations across the country on Tuesday was not showing any signs of abating on Wednesday. Though the opposition leader, Henrique Capriles, called off a planned march in the capital, Car... | 1,043 |
theatlantic.com | 2003 | Sheikh Saleh bin Saad al-Lohaidan, a judicial adviser to an association of Gulf psychologists, recently told a Saudi website that "If a woman drives a car, not out of pure necessity, that could have negative physiological impacts as functional and physiological medical studies show that it automatically affects the ova... | 1,233 |
finance.yahoo.com | 2003 | For a Good Job After College, Go Here
Many colleges across the country boast of a small-town atmosphere or a peaceful, bucolic setting. But those things could actually impede your hunt for a good job once you graduate.
New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York helps confirm what many recent college grads a... | 584 |
allafrica.com | 2003 | THE United States is confident that Zimbabwe can become Africa's fastest growing economy, US ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Bruce Wharton has said.
Speaking to journalists in Gweru on Wednesday soon after touring Naletale Ruins, Ambassador Wharton said the Government of Zimbabwe had taken positive steps towards economic gr... | 470 |
blogwatch.tv | 2003 | By the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
First of Two Parts
HIS MOTHER is a former president who was widowed when her husband, a prominent opposition leader, was assassinated. And so when Benigno Simeon ‘Noynoy’ C. Aquino III came to power on June 30, 2010, expectations were high that he would act with dis... | 5,066 |
jacksonfreepress.com | 2003 | Everyone in town seems to have an opinion on which course of action the Jackson Zoo's leadership, faced with financial obstacles, should take to ensure the longevity of what former Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. called "one of Jackson's jewels." While most of the "facts" making the rounds are speculative, what's certain is t... | 1,162 |
seattlepi.com | 2003 | What’s a tree worth?
More exactly, what is the worth of 102 trees grown for decades or, in at least one case, centuries on public land?
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A price otherwise answered in dollars will likely be paid in one year in prison by Reid B. Johnston, a Brinnon logger caught stealing prot... | 1,013 |
chinadaily.com.cn | 2003 | In the press
Updated: 2013-09-05 06:33
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Wong Yat
'Independence' daydream
It was reported that some 300 Hong Kong residents lent their names to a political ad published in two local newspapers and Taiwan-based Liberty Times, a "pro-Taiwan independence" daily, on Tuesday, demanding Chief Executive Leung Chun-... | 998 |
news.am | 2003 | More than 600 journalists had been killed in the past decade, 41 of them in Syria in the course of 2012, UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said during the Wednesday debates.
Eliasson said that each journalist killed by extremists, drug cartels or even Government forces, meant one less voice to speak on behalf of... | 159 |
theledger.com | 2003 | Peoria man gets 58 years for 2009 gas station slaying, again
PEORIA — A Peoria man was resentenced Monday to 58 years in prison for his part in the slaying of a gas station owner more than four years ago.
Ali L. Evans said nothing to Peoria County Circuit Judge Steve Kouri, who imposed the same sentence Evans received ... | 493 |
cnn.com | 2003 | Story highlights
Saola caught on forest camera in Vietnam
At most, only a few hundred saola thought to exist
Species was first discovered in 1992
Environmentalists in Vietnam were ebullient this week after remote cameras in a forest reserve snapped pictures of a live saola, one of the rarest large mammals on Earth.
At ... | 525 |
edition.cnn.com | 2003 | Story highlights
Negotiations between the U.S. and Afghanistan over post-2014 troop levels have deteriorated
Those who have dealt with Afghan President Karzai say it's sometimes 'like dealing with a child'
The U.S. planned to leave some residual force in place to fight insurgents and train Afghan forces
The U.S. planne... | 1,011 |
ipsnews.net | 2003 | Friday, May 1, 2026
- Women’s political representation in the Pacific Islands region is globally the lowest at 3.65 percent, compared to the world average of 18 percent. Leadership is still widely perceived as ‘men’s business’ and voting is heavily influenced by nepotism and money politics. However, Rhoda Sikilabu, min... | 1,221 |
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As severe weather and the costs to repair the damage it can cause increase, a Wisconsin insurance attorney offers advice on the property damage claims process and what to do if your claim is denied.
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Health
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WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” newsletter keeps you c... | 250 |
rferl.org | 2003 | At least four Pakistani soldiers have been injured in an attack in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan.
The attack on the paramilitary Frontier Corps' patrol on September 20 happened in the Bolan district close to the provincial capital, Quetta.
The troops were carrying out an operation against separatist ... | 284 |
advocate.com | 2003 | Globe-trotting antigay evangelical preacher Scott Lively has made several trips to Russia in the past decade, and so he's qualified to speak about the increase of violence against LGBT Russians.
At least, that's what Lively told fellow antigay right-winger Linda Harvey on Harvey's Mission America radio show Saturday, a... | 558 |
newsok.com | 2003 | OG&E, Google deal offers transparency on data center funding, but questions remain
Oklahoma state senate candidate found dead near Texas border
Judge refuses to dismiss charge against Epic Charter Schools co-founders
Lawmakers pass criminal penalties for providing abortion pills
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Vote: Landmark Fi... | 489 |
news.yahoo.com | 2003 | Gay couples in New Jersey will be able to marry within days.
A lower-court judge had ruled that same-sex weddings must be allowed starting Monday, and the state's highest court upheld that ruling Friday.
It denied a request from popular Republican Gov. Chris Christie's administration to delay the weddings.
Christie, a ... | 153 |
katv.com | 2003 | 47 Arkansas National Guard members return home from Kuwait
NORTH LITTLE ROCK (KATV) - A well-deserved standing ovation greeted Arkansas Army National Guard soldiers as they searched the crowd for their loved-ones.
Forty-seven members returned back to Arkansas after a nine-month tour in Kuwait.
"Parents that are here, s... | 357 |
allafrica.com | 2003 | Ten years after its launch, the Kimberley Process (KP) must implement urgent and substantial reforms if it hopes to remain releveant and play any real role in building a cleaner and more transparent global diamond trade in future, said a group of African and international civil society organisations.
With the KP Inters... | 518 |
medicalnewstoday.com | 2003 | A new study reports that the incidence of ischemic stroke - the most common type of stroke, caused by a clot in the blood vessels of the brain - among non-Hispanic Whites and Mexican Americans over age 60 has declined over the past decade. Most concerning, however, is that the increased relative burden of stroke compar... | 565 |
baltictimes.com | 2003 | BRAINSTORMING: The audience listened closely to Valdis Dombrovskis at the start of the economic forum.
RIGA - Latvia’s business elite came together this month for the first World Latvian Economics and Innovations Forum in Riga, to discuss how to develop local companies into world-class enterprises as well as what is ne... | 2,176 |
wtvr.com | 2003 | LONG BEACH, New York (CNN) — Some New Yorkers mark the anniversary of the September 11 attacks by going to a memorial service or observing a moment of silence.
For the past 10 years, Jeff Parness has been helping others.
Every September, Parness brings hundreds of volunteers from New York to help another disaster-stric... | 906 |
dailymail.co.uk | 2003 | - Lung cancer rates in China's capital have doubled in a decade
- Officials blame smoking, saying air pollution is only a factor
- While 320million Chinese smoke, the rate has fallen steadily since 1996
- Meanwhile air pollution has soared 30 per cent in 2013 alone
- Last week an eight-year-old girl was diagnosed with ... | 1,292 |
voanews.com | 2003 | The global decline of honey bees and other pollinating insects is caused by multiple, largely human-induced effects, according to a new study.
Over the past decade, scientists have been reporting steady and mysterious declines in the populations of so-called pollinator insects.
These include the honeybees, wasps, flies... | 1,185 |
yalibnan.com | 2003 | A Saudi judge sentenced a political activist to 300 lashes and 4 years in prison for calling for a constitutional monarchy in Saudi Arabia, his rights group said on Sunday.
Omar al-Saeed is the fourth member of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) to be jailed this year
Saeed did not have legal repr... | 430 |
jezebel.com | 2003 | Casey Anthony, Disney condos, CSI: Miami, and now this. The state of Florida is apparently under threat from a small army of adaptive, herpes-infected monkeys that wildlife officials are now classifying as a “public health hazard.”
More than 1,000 Rhesus monkeys currently herp around the Silver River in Florida where t... | 227 |
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | 2003 | NEW DELHI: India on Friday threw its lot with the beleaguered Hamid Karzai government which was stunned by Afghan Taliban opening an office recently in Qatar, where the insurgent group is slated to hold talks with the US, in the name of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. This comes days ahead of US secretary of state John... | 441 |
ibtimes.com | 2003 | Nigeria has become the first African country to ratify the Arms Trade Treaty, or ATT, an international agreement aimed at stopping the illegal shipments of deadly weapons.
The ATT lays out an overarching set of rules to govern the import and export of a broad range of weapons, from small firearms to warships to helicop... | 678 |
thelocal.es | 2003 | La Linea (The Line), as the name may suggest, lies on the border with the British overseas territory and has consequently seen a constant exchange of workers and services over the past decades.
But the current spat between the Spanish government and its diminutive neighbour has resulted in a drop in the numbers of Gibr... | 184 |
japantimes.co.jp | 2003 | Despite an international trend taking the opposite tack, the number of aquariums in Japan is growing and sales of dolphins continue to flourish, results of an independent study have revealed.
Animal welfare groups Elsa Nature Conservancy and Help Animals have collated data from official documents, marine facilities and... | 138 |
irrigator.com.au | 2003 | The furore over Australia's Indonesian spying program could damage Australia's economic relationship with the country - the largest economy in south-east Asia.
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Most Australians are unaware of the size of Australia's trade relationship with Indonesia, tho... | 548 |
marketwire.com | 2003 | LONG ISLAND CITY, NY--(Marketwired - Sep 9, 2013) - FreshDirect, the leading online retailer of fresh foods and grocery items, announced today the company will expand its popular service into 123 new zip codes throughout PA, NJ, Rockland County NY, and now Delaware! On September 9, 2013 FreshDirect's expansion will inc... | 912 |
news.yahoo.com | 2003 | Louis Fisher, scholar in residence at The Constitution Project, discusses an important letter detailing the potential costs of a Syrian intervention by President Obama, as well as roadblocks placed by the President in his own path.
President Obama has encountered a series of roadblocks after deciding to use military fo... | 1,351 |
ca.news.yahoo.com | 2003 | A new winery in Kelowna is grabbing attention with unique architecture that blends east and west. As the CBC’s Brady Strachan reports, the estate is a powerful cultural bridge for those visiting the region.
CBCEarlier this week, the Yukon government announced a prospective buyer for the Eagle gold mine. A company from ... | 2,065 |
chinadaily.com.cn | 2003 | Parity with international brands possible by 2018
Over the years Chinese vehicle brands have been a byword for cheap prices and low quality.
That perception has started to change as domestic brands make strides in initial quality. Chinese consumers are finding less and less to complain about with their new domestic car... | 312 |
chronicle.com | 2003 | In one of the most severe penalties ever assessed to a university for violations of a federal campus-crime law, the U.S. Department of Education has fined Yale University $165,000 for failing to disclose four forcible sex offenses that occurred on its campus more than a decade ago.
In a letter sent to Yale’s president,... | 797 |
dw.de | 2003 | There are six candidates for the Tajikistan presidential election, held on Wednesday, November 6. Early polling suggests incumbent Emomali Rakhmon can expect to receive 90 percent of votes. Rawschan Abdullajew, head of the Tajik Foundation "Eurasia," believes Rakhmon's is a sure-fire win. "Everything the opposition has... | 854 |
edition.cnn.com | 2003 | Story highlights
President Hamid Karzai said he met with the CIA station chief in Kabul
Karzai says the CIA has been delivering cash to his office for 10 years
He says he was assured by the CIA that aid will continue
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he has received assurances from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency... | 557 |
ibtimes.com | 2003 | Nawaz Sharif, the recently elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, said he wants to establish peace with India and end the expensive arms race between the two South Asian rivals.
Sharif, 63, now the most powerful politician in Pakistan for a third time (he lost the Prime Ministry in 1999 when the army chief General Pervez ... | 1,390 |
smh.com.au | 2003 | Australia's most famous expatriate, Rupert Murdoch, has told a packed Sydney Town Hall that Australia is on the cusp of being able to overtake competitors like Singapore and Hong Kong but needs to capitalise on its diverse migrant population and embrace economic "disruption", the defining feature of the 21st century.
D... | 463 |
irishtimes.com | 2003 | When John Gilligan takes his first steps of freedom this morning, he will be re-entering a society where the criminal underworld is very different to the one he once dominated.
It is a new world of ultra gun violence where his profile and reputation will not protect him as it once did. The Dubliner has been in prison f... | 1,141 |
blog.limkitsiang.com | 2003 | NEWS ANALYSIS BY THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER
OCTOBER 28, 2013
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today spoke of the lunatic fringe holding sway in the country, saying that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was acceding to demands from extremists in the opposition.
However, he did not name the extremists or say what their demands we... | 652 |
sbwire.com | 2003 | Fast Market Research recommends "Tobacco in Japan" from Euromonitor International, now available
Boston, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/20/2013 -- Volume sales of cigarettes rose slightly in 2012 although the category shrank over the past decade as a whole. Such a reversal in the trend in 2012 was due to a sharp sales decline in... | 643 |
cpj.org | 2003 | Bangkok, July 31, 2013–Authorities in the Philippines must identify the motive behind the murders of two journalists on Tuesday and ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Both reporters were columnists for the Aksyon Ngayon weekly tabloid newspaper.
Two unidenti... | 463 |
cnn.com | 2003 | Story highlights
Negotiations between the U.S. and Afghanistan over post-2014 troop levels have deteriorated
Those who have dealt with Afghan President Karzai say it's sometimes 'like dealing with a child'
The U.S. planned to leave some residual force in place to fight insurgents and train Afghan forces
The U.S. planne... | 1,011 |
indianexpress.com | 2003 | With Afghanistan angry at the US on their support for the Taliban office in Qatar,India on Friday said the reconciliation process should not undermine the legitimate Afghan government or confer legitimacy to insurgent groups. New Delhi said the move should not give the impression that there are two competing state auth... | 356 |
theconversation.com | 2003 | Calls for the legalisation of marijuana in the Americas have gathered pace in recent years. Nearly half US states have decreed in favour of the legal use of medical marijuana and last month Uruguay was the first Latin American country to decriminalise marijuana use completely.
Over the past decade former Latin American... | 1,366 |
scmp.com | 2003 | Suntech in line for US$150m injection
The mainland's troubled solar panel maker Suntech Power said it was in line to receive a US$150 million investment from a company controlled by its hometown government as it restructures following a debt default.
The mainland's troubled solar panel maker Suntech Power said it was i... | 334 |
newsroompanama.com | 2003 | Panama: Security Minister Frank Abrego pictured above and below, confirmed that the government is still planning to purchase 10,000 bulletproof vests, where the...
President José Raúl Mulino used his weekly press conference to address several national issues, including the retention of Panamanian-flagged vessels...
Pan... | 119 |
tribuneindia.com | 2003 | Lessons in honesty
Ethical values must come naturally
The proposal to train Britain�s MPs in �honesty� would have been laughable had it not been symptomatic of a serious malaise. Indeed, for quite some time the conduct of those holding public office has not been above board. Often their style of functioning and behavio... | 4,668 |
usatoday.com | 2003 | Military completes investigation into Camp Bastion attack
WASHINGTON — The military has completed the investigation into an attack last year in Afghanistan that led to the deaths of two Marines and the destruction of six attack aircraft.
The report has been turned over to the Marine Corps commandant, Gen. James Amos, w... | 676 |
fcir.org | 2003 | By Eric Barton
Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
Listen to Eric Barton’s companion radio report, which aired on WLRN Miami-Herald News and WUSF 89.7 News:
Quietly at first, and now quite publicly, the city of Tampa has courted Cuba in hopes of becoming its future trading partner. Business owners in Tampa talk ... | 2,997 |
allafrica.com | 2003 | A renewed focus on mega-dams will make matters worse in Africa and benefit companies, not people
The big, bad dams of past decades are back in style.
In the 1950s and '60s, huge hydropower projects such as the Kariba, Akosombo and Inga dams were supposed to modernise poor African countries almost overnight. It didn't w... | 933 |
bulawayo24.com | 2003 | News / Local
Mugabe to land at new Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo terminal
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President Robert Mugabe is set to use the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport Friday as he jets in the city for National University of Science and Technology graduation.
The new terminal which government was battling to complete for past... | 1,051 |
freedetainees.org | 2003 | Cellphone theft is very rampant worldwide. In the U.S. alone, there were 3.1 million cases of reported incidents of cellphone theft. Statistics also reveal that 44% of phone theft victims unintentionally left their phone in a public place and then, later on, snatched it by a thief. In a recent study conducted at Boston... | 747 |
independent.co.uk | 2003 | HIV infections among gay men in London are soaring, with sexual health workers saying that a “chaotic and harmful” link between high-risk drug use and gay sex in the capital is fuelling the increase.
Latest figures from Public Health England show that the rate of infection in the capital leaped by more than 20 per cent... | 1,044 |
rferl.org | 2003 | Ten years ago, Mukhtar Ablyazov stepped out of Kazakhstan's notorious Derzhavinsk prison with a pledge to give up politics.
Ablyazov, a "wild '90s" oligarch and rising force in Kazakhstan's nascent opposition, had served just 10 months of a six-year sentence for illegal financial deals. But it had been enough. During h... | 4,621 |
theguardian.com | 2003 | In the past decade, the bubblegum pop and kitsch dance routines of South Korea's K-pop bands have taken the charts by storm in Asia and Latin America. But north across the Korean border, broadcasters are promoting a track less likely to become an international success: a new signature song for youthful leader Kim Jong-... | 645 |
theage.com.au | 2003 | You are walking up the street – perhaps to the post office. Or, as bad luck might have it for the young man in the blue T-shirt, you are running late for work. You spot him from the corner of your eye and realise you are his next target. There is a glint of white as he begins to smile and his hand goes up to get your a... | 2,732 |
chinadaily.com.cn | 2003 | GUANGZHOU - Although China's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are still grappling with a sluggish economy, they are cheered by initiatives that will hopefully pull them out of their predicament.
"I have nothing valuable left except for my wife," Zeng Dexiang said with a forced smile.
Self-mockery is popular am... | 1,000 |
theatlantic.com | 2003 | In March of this year, a Gallup poll highlighted an interesting tension in American thinking on global warming: While a majority of respondents said they believe global warming has already begun, a majority also said they don’t expect to suffer any hardships from global warming within their lifetimes. What the survey d... | 1,493 |
voanews.com | 2003 | The top U.S. military officer is trying to reassure China that the United States wants to be a "stabilizing influence" in the Asia-Pacific region.
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey commented Monday at a joint news conference with his Chinese counterpart Fang Fenghui in Beijing.
The Obama administration... | 870 |
au.news.yahoo.com | 2003 | Police in one state reveal it's legal for cyclists to take over an entire traffic lane, but only if they adhere to a specific rule.
A man accused of murdering a five-year-old girl has been flown out of an outback town after vigilantes beat him unconscious and attacked emergency workers.
Australian Associated PressThe g... | 757 |
independent.co.uk | 2003 | With the looming withdrawal of Nato troops and a persistent insurgent threat, Afghanistan is in a precarious position. Innumerable tragedies have beleaguered rural Afghans throughout the past decades of conflict — perpetual violence, oppression of women, and crushing poverty have all contributed to the Hobbesian nature... | 2,263 |
scmp.com | 2003 | Beijing marks one year since devastating floods
Mourning for 79 who died in one day as critics question if Beijing has done enough to prepare for another deluge
Beijing yesterday marked the first anniversary of devastating floods that claimed 79 lives in a day by mourning victims and holding a large-scale disaster reli... | 396 |
ecns.cn | 2003 | China and the United States on Friday concluded their annual trade talks, agreeing to remove some trade barriers and build a foundation for the new model of major power relations.
"This is the first Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) since the new Chinese and U.S. administrations took office," Chinese Vice P... | 984 |
theglobeandmail.com | 2003 | When Shirley was handed a three-month prescription for Ativan, her doctor insisted the popular sedative was just an "innocent little thing" to help her sleep.
But after her doctor yanked her off the drug cold turkey, rather than slowly tapering off the dosage as experts typically recommend, Shirley plunged into a deep ... | 1,462 |
news.yahoo.com | 2003 | LONDON - Rights campaigners are taking aim at a British military policy that puts the U.K. in the same league as North Korea and Iran: recruiting soldiers under the age of 18.
Two groups said in a report published Tuesday that Britain's military is wasting up to 94 million pounds ($143.4 million) a year training recrui... | 872 |
cw.ua.edu | 2003 | Sharpe Named Dean of UA Honors College
Dr. Shane Sharpe has been named dean of the Honors College at The University of Alabama. Sharpe came to UA as a faculty member in the College of Commerce and Business Administration in 1991 after a 10-year career in the health care industry. He holds a bachelor of science degree i... | 321 |
salon.com | 2003 | In November 2008, a mail-order book addressed to Lou Johnson arrived at the Hilltop Unit, a state prison for women located in Gatesville, central Texas. Written by investigative journalist Silja Talvi, the book was titled Women Behind Bars: The Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System, and chronicled the past decades’... | 3,544 |
theconversation.com | 2003 | Perhaps it is merely a symptom that Richard Haass’ engagement in Northern Ireland has stimulated widespread debate within the Criminal Justice system in Northern Ireland, or perhaps it is a demonstration of more purposeful choreography. A Criminal Justice Inspection (CJI) report on the costs and impacts for the crimina... | 1,566 |
news24.com | 2003 | Pretoria - The lead prosecutor in the Boeremag treason trial has welcomed the 20 men's sentences, which range from five to 48-years' imprisonment.
Fourteen of the men were sentenced to in effect five to 25 years' imprisonment, five received wholly suspended sentences, and one, who had suffered a series of strokes, was ... | 564 |
bulawayo24.com | 2003 | News / National
'Zimbabwe regime change calls legal,' says NGO
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Zimbabwe's civic groups have vowed to continue calling for regime change despite Zanu-PF's overwhelming win in the July 31 election.
This was revealed at a civic society exhibition last week.
"As civic society it is our role to push for regime ch... | 1,059 |
radionz.co.nz | 2003 | Waikato-Tainui's profits are going back to the people with $1 million to be distributed to more than 600 descendants.
Forty six of them are doing masters degrees and a dozen are completing doctoral studies.
The financial assistance follows a solid annual performance from the tribe's commercial arm - Tainui Group Holdin... | 119 |
hosted2.ap.org | 2003 | Short Stories
Lindsey Vonn tells the AP she’s not ready emotionally to decide if she’ll race again
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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to pay billions for opioid crisis
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Bodycam video released as London police say stabbing of 2 Jewish men was act of terrorism
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Mississippi middle school students stop bus from cra... | 553 |
dailymail.co.uk | 2003 | - Abu Zubaydah was captured in 2002
- Guantanamo Bay prisoner thought to be Al Qaeda's third in command
- The diaries start in 1990 and span the decade leading up to the 9/11 attack
Third in command: Abu Zubaydah was only behind Osama Bin Laden and the group's current leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri
The US government have re... | 1,722 |
medicaldaily.com | 2003 | Scientists in Novosibirsk, Russia believe they have identified a new HIV strain that is more severe than others, and it’s spreading at a “rapid rate” throughout Russia, Chechnya, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan.
The subtype of the HIV virus is referred to as 02_AG/A and was first detected in Novosibirsk in 2006, the Moscow ... | 528 |
medicaldaily.com | 2003 | A 55-year-old Egyptian prisoner is appealing for release due to health problems, including obesity, diabetes, difficulty breathing and other serious ailments. He has been imprisoned at the U.S. military prison located at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 11 years.
Tarek El-Sawah, who had previously faced charges of conspiracy ... | 883 |
nhpr.org | 2003 | (We updated the top of this post at 12:40 p.m. ET.)
The man who held three young women against their will in his Cleveland home for about a decade, who fathered a child by one of them and forced another to have abortions, and who is the face of a horrific crime that shocked the nation, pleaded guilty Friday to hundreds... | 696 |
thelocal.es | 2003 | La Linea (The Line), as the name may suggest, lies on the border with the British overseas territory and has consequently seen a constant exchange of workers and services over the past decades.
But the current spat between the Spanish government and its diminutive neighbour has resulted in a drop in the numbers of Gibr... | 184 |
irishmirror.ie | 2003 | Vatican cleric accused of laundering money for the rich
Spectacular scandal involving the Vatican Bank, police wiretaps, a private plane and burned mobile phones
A top Catholic cleric with connections to the Vatican Bank was under arrest last night accused of laundering tens of millions of euro.
Monsignor Nunzio Scaran... | 452 |
timesofmalta.com | 2003 | Was citizenship programme discussed with PL before election?
Henley & Partners CEO Eric Major was coy when asked whether his firm discussed the Government’s citizenship-for sale scheme with the Labour Party when it was in opposition. “I did not personally,” said Mr Major. “These guys did not because they were...
Henley... | 738 |
theglobeandmail.com | 2003 | The Ontario government is helping to block a Charter challenge designed to force Canada to do more to help homeless people – despite Premier Kathleen Wynne's call for a national affordable-housing strategy.
A Superior Court judge threw out the case last week after Queen's Park teamed up with the federal government to s... | 614 |
japantimes.co.jp | 2003 | Despite an international trend taking the opposite tack, the number of aquariums in Japan is growing and sales of dolphins continue to flourish, results of an independent study have revealed.
Animal welfare groups Elsa Nature Conservancy and Help Animals have collated data from official documents, marine facilities and... | 138 |
allafrica.com | 2003 | Addis Ababa — China Jiangsu International and the Addis Ababa Education Bureau on Tuesday signed an agreement to construct two schools in the Ethiopian capital.
The China-Africa Friendship Schools Project will cost 60 million Chinese yuan (around 9.6 million U. S. dollars).
Signing the contract, Xie Wei, deputy general... | 306 |
independent.co.uk | 2003 | The UK has pledged to save “a life every three minutes” with a major new aid commitment to fight some of the world’s most devastating preventable diseases.
More than £1bn will be spent over the next three years on global health initiatives, through the flagship Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
The pledge doub... | 878 |
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