Posted on: Saturday, 29 January 2011, 08:17 CST On Friday, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the U.S. and Europe should take the lead in battling climate change, rather than waiting around for others to take charge. “This climate change campaign should be led,…
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Troops were deployed on the streets of Suez on Saturday, as demonstrations against the government of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak entered their fifth straight day in cities across the country. (Jan 29)
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What looks like political unrest in Tunisia and Egypt actually has economic beginnings. On this episode of Counting the Cost, we look at the economies of North Africa and the economic seeds that blossomed into political unrest. Plus, we report from the World Economic Forum in Davos and ask whether snow can really be blamed for a terrible quarter of UK economic growth.
Continue reading …An excellent homemade effort here. This seems to the original version but has been flagged at YouTube so may not be viewable. Violent clashes between police and demonstrators as over ten thousand gather on the streets of Cairo. The Egyptian population has endured a tyrants rule for far too long, millions struggle each day to find where their next meal is coming from. January 25th, 2011 marks the day when the people rise and take back what’s rightfully there’s. This isn’t the end, but hopefully the beginning to a long awaited regime change! Send to everyone and let them know.
Continue reading …No pressure, Chelsea, but Hillary Clinton wants to be a grandma more than she ever wanted to be leader of the free world. Or so says Bill Clinton in a lighter moment of an interview at Davos, reports Reuters. When asked what he’d like to achieve in the next 10…
Continue reading …Must have been a really uncontrollable case of the giggles, but just after “laughing too hard” landed Charlie Sheen in the hospital with a hernia, the Two and a Half Men star has now landed in rehab, reports People . Sheen “has voluntarily entered an undisclosed rehabilitation center today,” says a…
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Photo: Alabama Chanin Alabama Chanin offers a sexy and sustainable alternative to your standard nylon negligee and polyester panties for Valentine’s Day : a DIY organic cotton corset and bloomer set , entirely made in the USA. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …The United States is demanding the release of an American diplomat charged yesterday in the murders of two Pakistanis he says were trying to rob him, reports the AP. “The United States Embassy in Pakistan calls for the immediate release,” according to a statement that cited Raymond Davis’ immunity, and…
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Author and journalist Eliza Griswold examines the complex relationship between Muslims and Christians along the tenth parallel, the line of latitude 1100 kilometres north of the equator where more than half of the world’s Muslims and over 60 per cent of the world’s Christians live.
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