Michael James MacDonald
Monday, July 7th, 2008BROWNING - Michael James MacDonald, 26, of Browning, a Chief Mountain Hot Shot firefighter, died Monday in a helicopter collision near Flagstaff, Ariz.
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BROWNING - Michael James MacDonald, 26, of Browning, a Chief Mountain Hot Shot firefighter, died Monday in a helicopter collision near Flagstaff, Ariz.
Global oil production declines in 2007
Monday, July 7th, 2008The British Petroleum Company PLC (BP) recently published the "Statistical Review of World Energy 2008." It reveals that the OPEC production cuts have influenced the decline in global oil production by 0.2% over the previous year to 81.5 mb ...
Vietnam’s 3G licenses open door to foreign phone operators
Monday, July 7th, 2008The race for third-generation (3G) licenses is giving Vietnamese mobile phone operators the chance to cooperate with foreign firms, according to local newspaper Vietnam Investment Review on Monday. France Telecom and MobiFone, NTT D ...
Inter-Korean trade surges in H1 despite political chill
Monday, July 7th, 2008Inter-Korean trade went up sharply in the first half of 2008 year-on-year despite the frozen relationship between the two Koreas after President Lee Myung-bak took office in late February thanks to the increase of commercial trade, the Sout ...
Blasts rock Georgia’s breakaway region, one dead
Monday, July 7th, 2008Six blasts occurred Sunday on both sides of the border of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, leaving one person dead and 10 injured, news reaching here quoted Georgian officials as said. One of the blasts took place in a cafe i ...
Castro opposes U.S. high-handed policy against Colombia
Monday, July 7th, 2008Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said his country has been supporting peace in Colombia and that he is against the high-handed policy that the United States "tries to impose on all long-suffering and working people at any price." Ca ...
"Pastors for Peace" arrive in Cuba with 100 tons of humanitarian aid
Monday, July 7th, 2008Members of the U.S. inter-religious group "Pastors for Peace" arrived in Cuba Sunday with 100 tons of humanitarian aid, after overcoming some impediments at the U.S.-Mexico border. The group, which comes to Cuba every year in order ...
NBC Universal, private firms buy Weather Channel for $3.5b
Monday, July 7th, 2008NBC Universal and two private equity firms Bain Capital and Blackstone Group clinched a deal on Sunday to buy the Weather Channel from Landmark Communications Inc., according to media report. Though the financial terms were not disc ...