Archive for April 28th, 2008
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Thailand and India are set to finalize ways to accelerate boosting rice output in preparation for the growing global food shortage, Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce Minister Mingkwan Saengsuwan said on Monday.
Speaking ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
A group of academics and education officials in Israel formed a committee to establish an education policy aimed at helping the Jews and the Arabs live together, local daily Ha'aretz reported Monday.
"As long as the Education Minist ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Russia launched a carrier rocket on Monday to send an Israeli communications satellite into space, news agencies reported.
The Russian booster Zenit-3SLB with the upper-stage rocket DM-SLB, which lifted off from the Baikonur spacepo ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
All the options are on the table to prevent Iran from attaining nuclear weapons, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz said late Sunday before heading to Washington for strategic talks.
Israeli daily the Jerusalem Post quoted Mo ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Five Palestinians were killed and six others wounded in an Israeli artillery shelling on the town of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza Strip on Monday morning, medics and witnesses said.
Mo'aweya Hassanein, chief of emergency and ambulan ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Peace between Israel and Syria is now dependent on Damascus' stance and Syria must decide whether to abandon "the axis of evil" or to continue to be led by Iran, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz said late Sunday.
"The ball ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
US President George W. Bush poked fun at his potential successors, expressing surprise that none of them were in the audience at the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner.
"Senator McCain's not here," Bush said of Republi ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
A woman has told police that she was held prisoner in a cellar for almost 24 years by her father, who repeatedly raped her and fathered her seven children.
Lower Austria police said in a statement that the 42-year-old woman, identified a ...
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