Continue reading the main story Related stories Nigeria pledges to hunt bombers Nigeria violence in Jos: Q&A No end to Nigeria cycle of violence Further violence between armed groups has broken out in the city of Jos in central Nigeria following bombings that killed 32 people. Witnesses said buildings were set alight and people were seen…
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Cotton crops in Syria. Photo: Franco Pecchio / Creative Commons . With its villages emptying due to drought , creating what the United Nations calls the “largest internal displacement in the Middle East in recent years,” Syria needs solutions to its water-scarcity problem, and fast. That’s why it’s so heartening to see that the government has made an effort to show that life can be lived w… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Foreign intervention to oust Ivory Coast’s incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo could ignite a civil war, a spokesman for the president has warned. West African leaders have warned of military action if Mr Gbagbo refuses to hand power to rival Alassane Ouattara. But Ahoua Don Mello said such a move could spark an “interior war” due to foreign workers living in the country, AFP reports. Mr Gbagbo has refused to step aside…
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Spielberg’s film made Oskar Schindler famous, but left his widower bitter and frustrated. Now her heiress claims historical docs belong to her, demands Yad Vashem return them
Continue reading …From our friends at Media Matters — Sarah Palin: Misinformer of the Year : Congratulations to the Fox commentator, political activist and reality TV star who has boldly created new frontiers in spreading falsehoods and distorting the national conversation. Palin has truly earned the 2010 Glenn Beck Honorary Award for Excellence in Misinformation.
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AMSTERDAM – Dutch police have arrested 12 Somali men in the key port city of Rotterdam on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack, the public prosecutor said. The men, aged 19 to 48, were detained on a tip from intelligence services that they were planning an attack shortly in the Netherlands. There was no immediate information on the alleged target, but Rotterdam is Europe’s biggest port and a hub of maritime commerce, with huge oil and gas storage facilities and dozens of massive docks. European officials stepped up security around the holidays this year after a Nigerian man in 2009 left Amsterdam Airport on Christmas Day and allegedly tried to blow up a plane over Detroit with…
Continue reading …Dallas Police Bust a Cockfighting Ring, But Prosecution May Not Happen (Video)
December 26, 2010 No Comment
Last Saturday, the Dallas Police Department and the Human Society of the United States broke up a cockfighting ring is Dallas. In total, there were about 100 birds on the premises, of which 30 were either already dead or were so injured that Humane Society officials had to euthanize them on the spot. Some arrests were made, with more on the horizon, since many of those in attendance fled into the nearby woods, leaving their vehicles behind. The Texas Tribune was along for the raid, and posted a YouTube video of the bust and its aftermath.
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Dror Feiler delivers speech during mass rally to mark homecoming of Mavi Marmara ship to Istanbul port. ‘We are here together Jews, Christians, Arabs against blockade, this is not about religion, but about human rights,’ he says
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The forumites at NeoGAF were chatting it up all evening, and sure enough, it’s true — starting this morning, you can reserve a Nintendo 3DS by dropping a stack of change at any GameStop store. How high you’ll have to pile the coin seems to depend on the location, as a New York employee wanted us to deposit $50, even as an Arizona store said we’d only need to bankroll a modest $25. Not that it much matters, as either way your money will go directly towards the as-yet-undetermined ( likely $300 ) purchase price. Should your local GameStop fail to recognize the autostereoscopic handheld’s impending availability, just kindly ask them to consult their computer, find the SKU field, and type in the magic numbers “020132.” Then, painstakingly wait until March to claim your prize. Nintendo 3DS pre-orders begin at GameStop, still no official US price originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 26 Dec 2010 13:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Best of 2010: Media Scolded Americans as Anti-Islamic, Anti-Immigrant Bigots
December 26, 2010 No Comment
Condemning everyday Americans as racist, anti-immigrant Islamophobes was a favorite media theme in 2010, as documented by the Media Research Center's year-end Best Notable Quotables of 2010 . Polls showed most Americans supported Arizona's effort to curb illegal immigration and opposed building an Islamic center near the site of the destroyed World Trade Center towers — but on both scores the media elite stacked their coverage against the public. Winning the ” Hazing Arizona Award for Denigrating Immigration Enforcement ” was longtime New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse, who summoned images of resistance to Nazi occupation in an April 27 op-ed hoping for protests of the “police state” she claimed Arizona had become for trying to protect itself from illegal immigration. read more
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