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Sep 6, 2011

AFRICA News, Sep 06, 2011


Malaysia seizes nearly 700 elephant tusks
AFP
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian authorities have seized nearly 700 elephant tusks bound for China, an official said, the latest in a series of hauls indicating Malaysia had become a key ivory transit hub. Inspectors discovered the 695 African elephant tusks,...
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750000 Somalis are at risk of starving within the next few months
Globe and Mail
Famines, relatively rare in Africa in recent years, are officially declared when at least 30 per cent of children are suffering from acute malnutrition, food supplies are far less than adequate, and two adults (or four children) are dying of hunger ...
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Globe and Mail
10 players to watch at this year's Rugby World Cup
Winnipeg Free Press
South Africa has some of the best loose forwards in world rugby and Brussow is the best of their best. Goneva is the latest in a line of Fiji players who made their mark in sevens before establishing themselves in the test arena. ...
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Cable claims Mugabe dying from prostate cancer
ABC Online
GINNY STEIN: Of course, Mr Mugabe has in recent days said that he wants an election to be held at latest early next year. What's the MDC's position on that? DOUGLAS MONZORA: The call by Mr Mugabe for any election is the corroborating evidence. ...
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South Africa: Experts mull violence prevention measures
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
The latest research on the extent of violence in specific countries will be released. Experts will highlight violence prevention programmes in countries such as Brazil, Canada, Colombia, SouthAfrica, United Kingdom and United States. ...
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More Threats From Dhlakama
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Maputo, Sep 05, 2011 (Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Afonso Dhlakama, leader of Mozambique's main opposition party, the former rebel movement Renamo, has threatened that Renamo will set up barracks throughout ...
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Closing in on Colombia's 'Madman'?
InSight Crime
He is one of the most enigmatic and successful of the latest generation of Colombian drug traffickers, and thought to be responsible for the shipment of over 100 tons of cocaine a year. Operation Deep Water saw the arrest of 19 people, all believed to ...
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Of beasts and men
Discover Magazine (blog)
In particular, they seem to possess the diverged variants found in the western Pygmies, the Biaka, and the Khoisan populations of southern Africa. As assumed the pattern of admixture seems to be such that the two Pygmy groups and the Khoisan exhibit ...
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Discover Magazine (blog)
Warner wants green, and blue too
Sydney Morning Herald
Warner is likely to miss the start of NSW's Sheffield Shield season, which clashes with the Twenty20 leg of Australia's tour of South Africa, and possibly the Blues' second game as well if he is included for the one-day internationals. ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
The world needs a better moral compass
Thought Leader
It is worth noting that economic growth in Africa rebounded in 2010 with an estimated increase in gross domestic product of 4.7%, a trend that was expected to continue. The projected economic growth rate would be revised downwards as the conditions for ...
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UAE may see 3.3% real GDP growth
Khaleej Times
“It was a result of our view that the country would be among the few to actually benefit from the widespread social unrest unfolding throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at this juncture.” As one of only a few states, which have so far ...
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AUC Chairperson meets in Cairo with Prime Minister of Egypt
StarAfrica.com
In this regard, he referred to the recent pledge made by the Government of Egypt during the AU Pledging Conference for countries of Horn of Africa affected by drought and famine. He also expressed the AU's gratitude for hosting the AU High Level ...
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What is next for platinum?
Mineweb
Speaking on Mineweb.com's Metals Weekly Podcast, he said that despite the turmoil seen inrecent weeks, the group still remains positive on the outlook for autocatalyst demand in the second half of the year. After a first half characterised by robust ...
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England should not worry about Bale
Yahoo! Eurosport UK
Still, England have not exactly made England a fortress since returning from their dismal showing in South Africa last year, wining none of their last four home matches against Montenegro, France, Ghana and Switzerland. For the second time this year, ...
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JC De Vera is the face of Freego
Manila Standard Today
Another thing that the actor loves about Freego is how the denim brand keeps a pulse on the latestglobal trends, while crafting offerings that are relevant to the Filipino market. “With Freego, I know that I'll constantly be in style,” De Vera says. ...
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Western intervention in the Arab spring
The Guardian
Libya is the most recent casualty, with peaceboat diplomacy never even considered. Until the real alternative to war is hammered out round the conference table, the easy option will always be assumed to be the only one. • The latest revelations of ...
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'Zimbabwe empowerment minister powerless'
BusinessLIVE
Several other foreign companies with operations in Zimbabwe are up in arms with the government over the issue while the latest information suggests that Kasukuwere's empowerment ministry has rejected compliance submissions by Mwana Africa and Nestle. ...
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Exclusive Economic Zone: The Blue Line of the Greek Foreign Policy
EMportal
The question after the recent developments in North Africa is how the government of Mr. Papandreou will give the sense of continuity to this effort? In the past PASOK did not make use of its good relations with Mr. Kaddafi and Mr. Mubarak. ...
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Zimbabwe: New Churches Good, but . . .
AllAfrica.com
The church related schools also helped in instilling the much needed discipline in the country elites hence the will to struggle for the betterment of the people something that is lacking among therecent latest graduates. The media is currently awash ...
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Fresh attacks leave 11 dead in central Nigeria
AFP
JOS, Nigeria — Attacks in two villages in central Nigeria have killed 11 people, including children, the latest deaths in a fresh flare-up of violence in the region, a government official and a witness said on Monday. The attacks late Sunday occurred...
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AFP
Nigeria: Surging Demand Drives Hotel Rates Growth
AllAfrica.com
As hotels around the world report rate growth of 4 per cent in the first half of 2011, on the strength of the latest hotel survey from Hogg Robinson Group (HRG), the international corporate services company, the rates in Nigeria may continue to toe the ...
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Tibet's mining menace
chinadialogue
And the solution, according to central planners, is to tap into sources of copper and gold more remote than China's current mines in Zambia, Peru, Mongolia, Laos, South Africa and Kazakhstan. The answer to China's accelerating demand for copper and ...
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Rare industrial metals, proxy to gold, silver investment
Commodity Online
I have spent time in Africa, had an opportunity to live in Europe for a few years and I currently live in Panama. This experience has opened my eyes to what is happening outside of the USA. What I see is a great mass of people who were once walking now...
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Commodity Online
Risk of another downturn rises
Fight Back! Newspaper
There was also a big increase in the unemployment rate for African Americans of almost a whole percentage point. The African American unemployment now stands at 16.7%, more than twice as high as the rate for non-Hispanic whites, which is 7.2%. ...
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Claudia Schiffer spirits her clan away to Suffolk mansion
Daily Mail
Earlier this summer Stowe-educated Vaughn was at the centre of speculation about Jones's baby after he directed the actress, who bears more than a passing resemblance to his wife, in the latest film of the X-Men franchise. He has categorically denied ...
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Daily Mail
Chinese military growth presents more risks
NavyTimes.com
That's according to a new 84-page Pentagon report outlining some of the latest intelligence on the Chinese military. US officials say that the pace and scope of China's sustained military investment have allowed Beijing “to pursue capabilities that we ...
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Global Property Investment Volumes Continue Strong Growth
Property Abroad News
This is the key highlight of the latest release of Jones Lang La Salle's Global Markets Perspectives report. Overall the report is positive, with a common thread; the recent glut of doom and gloom has served to increase caution among investors, ...
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Manchester City chief executive Garry Cook facing high-level probe over email ...
Telegraph.co.uk
When Dr Anthonia raised the email with Cook, he insisted he had not been responsible for its content and that he had been away from work in South Africa when it had been sent, before adding via email: “I cannot and will not condone this unacceptable ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
After 9/11: 50 dates that quietly changed us
Tucson Citizen
It suggests various things to Americans, including the nation from whence they or their ancestors immigrated; tribal regions of South Africa under apartheid; and Nazi Germany. To Orlando Sentinel columnist David D. Porter, the term evokes a ...
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Religion Today Summaries - September 5, 2011
Crosswalk.com (blog)
The study appears in the latest edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry and is getting considerable attention from both sides of the abortion debate. The researchers examined 22 studies from 1995-2009 involving 877000 women, including 163000 who ...
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Crosswalk.com (blog)
How did I end up at Mom and Dad's?
Salon
I had been spending too much time writing about the world's latest earthquake at the relief organization where I worked, and I was ready to get back on an exercise regimen. I also knew it was the floor that Dag worked on, so I poked my head into his ...
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Salon
Libya live: latest developments after Gaddafi downfall
Telegraph.co.uk
18.12 Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb - the terror group's north African branch - has acquired a stockpile of weapons during the turmoil in Libya, including surface-to-air missiles that are threatening air travel, the EU's counter-terrorism coordinator ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Marcegaglia hikes coil and tube prices, plate likely to rise
Steel Business Briefing (subscription)
Despite the recent slowdown in Germany, this country is still the most interesting and strongest in the European market, he says. “In term of tubes we are looking closely at the end of the spring revolutions in north Africa, focusing on some markets in ...
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Western Digital wins three Channel Awards this year
Al-Bawaba
Commenting on these awards wins Khwaja Saifuddin Ahmad, Senior Director Sales Middle East,Africa & South Asia, “We are very proud of our achievements to date and the recent award wins are a testament of all the hard work we pursue to support the ...
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William Faulkner & F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bookslut
It's impossible to imagine him publishing anything like the confessional essays Fitzgerald delivers in The Crack-Up, or the self-portraits Hemingway provides in The Green Hills of Africa and A Moveable Feast. When Malcolm Cowley tried to include some ...
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Special Report Podcast: Terence Goodlace, Metorex CEO
Moneyweb.co.za
We have competition authorities and that's Zambia, South Africa and China, then overall we have the Republic of China consents that we need to get through. ALEC HOGG: So, this is very much a set of results that will make god reading to your potential ...
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Gerard Butler in Tears
AhlanLive.com
Aww. The 300 star plays real-life Sudan hero Sam Childers in the film, and admits it's becoming difficult for him to recall the time spent on the set of the film in South Africa, without crying. Sam transformed his drug-riddled, crime-filled life after ...
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AhlanLive.com
Humans Had Sex Regularly With Mysterious Extinct Relatives in Africa
LiveScience.com
In comparison, recent estimates suggest that Neanderthal DNA makes up 1 percent to 4 percent of modern Eurasian genomes and Denisovan DNA makes up 4 percent to 6 percent of modern Melanesian genomes. [Neanderthals Had Sex With Humans] "We need to ...
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LiveScience.com
State Security Ministry on Secrecy Bill
Screen Africa
South Africa's Ministry of State Security has issued the following statement with regards to the processing of the Protection of State Information Bill (often referred to by the media as the Secrecy Bill). The statement reads: “The Ministry welcomes ...
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Deloitte South Africa Tax News – Number 3 of 2011 « Deloitte SA
By David Graham
Welcome to the latest edition of Deloitte Tax News, kindly compiled by the Deloitte South Africa Tax services line. If you have any questions or require any ... One of the main focus areas in this edition of Tax News is the international tax arena. We examine some key considerations ... In the recentcourt case of Oceanic Trust Co Ltd, the South African tax authorities challenged the “place of effective management” (and thus tax residence) of the taxpayer. Our article dealing with this case ...
Deloitte SA
News from The Associated Press
Rethinking Africa: Nation-by-Nation Profiles ... Latest Africa News ... is looking into recentallegations that its peacekeeping soldiers are having sex with minors in ...
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LATIN AMERICA News, Sep 06, 2011




Bitbop Pulls A Hulu, Goes Abroad With Ad-Free Mobile Video Offer In Germany
paidContent.org
That's a strategy that's also being taken by Netflix in its launches in Latin America, which kicked off today. Hulu, which shows programming with ads in its home market of the US, last week launched an ad-free service in Japan, its first foray abroad. ...
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Gisele Bundchen launches a global mobilization to support the forests
CSRwire.com (press release)
This message of awareness was captured in the wilderness of the Amazon, a region in Latin America that serves as habitat for a wide variety of species. The video was released today, World Amazon Day, on Gisele's YouTube channel. To spread the word, ...
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BBVA Joins Synaptic Digital Client Roster
EIN News (press release)
Our goal is to provide free, high-quality daily content to global broadcast and online media in the United States, Asia and especially Latin America, where Liga BBVA is the most watched foreign tournament of any sport," said Goyo Panadero, ...
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A New Netflix Versus Blockbuster Rivalry Brewing
The Epoch Times
Today, Netflix is busy perfecting its business model, and has expanded aggressively, first to Canada, and now to Latin America. Monday, Netflix launched its video-on-demand service in Brazil, and other Latin American countries will be able to view ...
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Telefonica Restructures, Creates New Units
Light Reading
Santiago Fernández Valbuena, previously General Manager of Strategy, Finance and Corporate Development, is now in charge of Latin America. The new operating unit is Global Resources, created to "ensure the profitability and sustainability of the ...
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China's spilled secrets
Los Angeles Times
The extraordinary video is on YouTube and can be viewed the world over, although not in China, where YouTube is blocked. The video is the latest example of how in a wired world, China's government is beginning to lose its grip over the Internet and ...
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Los Angeles Times
Sid The Baby Sloth At Home In UK Zoo (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
The zoo's website also explains that sloths like Sid are native to South America. Although they aren't facing extinction, "habitat destruction and climate change are the biggest threats facing Linne's two-toed sloths. They are also hunted as food and ...
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Gilat Selected to Provide Satellite Broadband Network for Security Communications
Space Daily
by Staff Writers Gilat Satellite Networks has been selected to provide a multi-million dollar SkyEdge II broadband network and services for security communications in Latin America. The network will be used to provide video surveillance as well as ...
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Snowboarder Rice goes big on 'The Art of Flight'
Houston Chronicle
And it meant telling good stories — like when snowboarders had to dive into icy waters high in the Andes of South America to reach their helicopter before it ran out of fuel to fly them out. '"Really scary, we almost died' — that sort of thing," ...
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Announcing NYC Workshop on Organizing Journalism & Civil Resistance
The Narco News Bulletin
This Wednesday, the Narco News Team will join LeBaron, Sicilia and the rest to report on their ten-day Caravan of the South through Chiapas to the Guatemalan border. A month later, we'll be in New York with Julian to share these experiences and the ...
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The Narco News Bulletin
Deep River man shares Peace Corps experience (video)
Middletown Press
A career in journalism existed in a world far south of his mind when he first enrolled into college, he explained. LaPlante's first major was pre-med. After a few classes and some in-depth soul searching, he realized his true passion was writing — and ...
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FireEngineering.com
COSTELLO: Hiring American workers, patriotic? Sort of like going shopping was patriotic after 9/11? That was how many Americans interpreted President Bush's remarks days after the 2001 attacks. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED ...
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Katy Perry excited about Mexico show
Music News
The tour began in February and has visited Europe, Australia, Japan and North America. The 26-year-old star took to her Twitter page to reveal her excitement ahead of the shows in South America. 'My mexican fans might rival all others. ...
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Music News
Chinese Online Gaming Giant 'Perfect World' To Invest $100M In A VC Fund
TechCrunch
Perfect World's games have been licensed to game operators in a number of countries and regions in Asia, Latin America and the Russian Federation and other Russian speaking territories. The company also generates revenues from game operations in North ...
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Liberty Opens Conference Play at High Point
LibertyFlames.com
The Panthers return nine starters from last year's 16-4-1 squad, including seven all-conference selections and the Big South Freshman of the Year Sewell. Okiomah, the 2010 Big South Player of the Year and a NSCAA All-American, was also tabbed by the ...
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Gov. Rick Perry Focuses Laser in Romney's Direction (Video)
Gather.com
Texas Governor and GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry squeezed in a town hall in Conway, SouthCarolina on Labor Day, before heading back to his home state earlier than he planned due to dangerous and damaging Texas wildfires. ...
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Editor's Choice: VIDEO: The Scotsman who is melting the hearts of more than a ...
Scottish Daily Record
Scots bank worker Douglas Hamilton has become an internet sensation after posting footage online of his encounters with lion cubs on a wildlife park in South Africa. Fans all over the world have watched the film, called Morning Love from the Lions, ...
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The Postwar Years: When Chinatown and a Nation Transformed
KCET (blog)
This led to far more Asian (and Latin American) immigration to the US The new arrivals were often distinct from predecessors from previous waves of immigration - such as those hailing from the Pearl River Delta region prior to 1882. ...
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KCET (blog)
In Conversation with George Gittoes
Brooklyn Rail
I was in Nicaragua covering the conflict during Leon's best period, all the Latin American stuff. He would debrief me when I would return some warzone. He loved accessing my photographs and experiences and we had a wonderful exchange. ...
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Guitar Man Warner Williams strums the blues in the District
Washington Post
Video: Warner Williams, one of the last, great songsters, performs "Hey Bartender, There's a Bug in My Beer." By Justin Jouvenal, To find the guitarist recently honored alongside BB King and John Lee Hooker as one of the nation's greatest traditional ...
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'Islam in America' exhibition opens in Mumbai dargah
iNewsOne
Mumbai, Sep 6 (IANS) US Consul General Peter Haas Tuesday inaugurated a photo and videoexhibition on 'Islam in America' at the Haji Ali shrine in south Mumbai. It is for the first time that such an exhibition is being held at the well-known shrine. ...
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Huskies Take Four-Match Winning Streak to Milwaukee Tuesday
Northern Illinois University Athletics
Live stats and video of the match will be available on UWMPanthers.com. NIU returns all but one player from last season's team that finished second at the Mid-AmericanConference tournament, tallying the most wins (27) since 1998 and best conference ...
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Northern Illinois University Athletics
Football Team at USF Saturday
BallStateSports.com
The Record: USF began its 2011 season with a 23-20 victory over Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. . . . The Bulls return 45 letterwinners, including 12 starters from a 2010 team that posted an 8-5 overall record and 3-4 mark in the Big East Conference . ...
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Job opportunity: Administrator - Missionary Society of St Columban
Independent Catholic News
The Society of St Columban is a Catholic Missionary Society working in fifteen countries with a special commitment to Asia and Latin America. In Britain we are a group of Columban missionaries, who see ourselves being called to be a missionary presence ...
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Aston Martin Grand 350 Cell Phone
Top Speed (blog)
It works within North America, Europe, Africa, Asia- Pacific, and South America. The Grand 350 Aston Martin body is CNC machined from aircraft specification aluminum, and anodized to produce an elegant hard surface for demanding everyday use. ...
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Dissonance, love and plastic, online
The Daily Star
The video depicts a predominantly black-and-white Beirut, where an animated version of Nachaz (whose renderings are vaguely reminiscent of a more evolved version of the characters in South Park) performs the song. Certain objects used by the band ...
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