Archive for May 15th, 2008
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Zeppelins are making a comeback in California, and, no, we're not talking about the English rock group.
Airship Ventures, which operates out of Moffett Field near the southern end of San Francisco Bay, has announced an agreement with ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The Bush administration on Wednesday declared the polar bear a threatened species, saying it must be protected because of the decline in Arctic sea ice from global warming.
Interior Department Secretary Dirk Kempthorne cited dramat ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said here on Thursday his country would not be intimidated after its high commission in Fiji received its second death threat in just over a week.
The high commission in Suva is reviewing se ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
A suicide blast killed five policemen and seven civilians in western Afghan province of Farah Thursday, an interior ministry spokesman said.
Twenty others including policemen were also injured in the explosion which occurred in Dula ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Myanmar's new constitution has been ratified according to the result released by the Commission for Holding Nationwide Referendum, the state television reported Thursday.
A total of 20,786,596, or 92.4 percent of voters, who cast vo ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Thousands of Filipinos were displaced after flash floods destroyed several houses in five villages in Negros Occidental, central Philippines, reported local television network ABS-CBN News Thursday.
The provincial office of the Depa ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Afghan police have shot dead a would-be suicide bomber in eastern Khost province, an official said Thursday.
A man equipped with explosive devices and assault rifle was gunned down Wednesday, provincial police spokesman Wazir Badsha ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
South Korea's ruling party on Thursday asked the government to provide unconditional food aid to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
The government should help those people in DPRK by providing unconditional humanitari ...
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