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Oct 2, 2011

LIBYA News, Oct 02, 2011


Libya's Waha Oil faces tough task to fix war damage
Reuters
By Jessica Donati TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Forces loyal to deposed Libyan leader MuammarGaddafi have destroyed vehicles and equipment at some fields owned by Libya's Waha Oil company and at others security is still too shaky to visit, an engineer with the ...
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Libya conflict: Hundreds of residents flee Sirte
BBC News
Streams of civilians have been fleeing the Libyan city of Sirte, ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi's birthplace. Travelling in vehicles packed with belongings, they have been queuing at checkpoints leading out of the city. Transitional authority forces say ...
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BBC News
Gaddafi son denies Interpol allegations
Stuff.co.nz
It added that Gaddafi's son "continues to call on all sides to seek a negotiated and peaceful resolution to the present conflict." The South African Football Association has signed an agreement with Libya'spost-Gaddafi football federation to host the ...
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Stuff.co.nz
Hugo Chavez sends solidarity to Gaddafi, Syria
Reuters
By Deisy Buitrago and Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday he was praying forLibya's deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and also sent a message of solidarity to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against ...
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Reuters
Tensions rise as Tripoli residents urge fighters out
Hindustan Times
Tensions are rising in Tripoli as increasingly frustrated residents call on hundreds of armed Libyan fighters who stayed in the city after the fall of Moamer Gaddafi to leave. Fighters from across Libya flooded into the capital in late August to help ...
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US General says NATO's military mission in Libya nearly complete
DigitalJournal.com
Carter Ham says NATO's military mission in Libya could start to end next week. He added that Gaddafi's capture is a matter for the Libyans to deal with. NATO's military mission in Libya is nearly complete and could begin to wind down as early as next ...
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DigitalJournal.com
When Western powers support 'revolution' in Libya!
The Citizen Daily
These were French President Nicholas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron whose countries and the US, under the umbrella of Nato had occupied Libya'sairspace and provided military air support to anti-Gaddafi insurgents now in charge in ...
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Tripoli gets new militia, apparent rebuff to Islamists
Reuters
Naker said his group was cooperating with the Tripoli Military Council which is led by Abdulhakim Belhadj, a veteran Islamist foe of Muammar Gaddafi. He said it would protect citizens' security and property, collect unlicensed weapons, ...
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NATO admits thousands of Libyan missiles missing
RT
Meanwhile, Libya's new military leadership declared on Saturday that some 5000 ground-to-air missiles are still unaccounted for. “Gaddafi's Libya bought about 20000 SAM-7 missiles, Soviet or Bulgarian manufactured,” General Mohammed Adia said at a ...
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RT
Human Rights Watch reports Libya rebels torturing detainees
DigitalJournal.com
Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) has failed to take control of its rebel fighters. The worst aspects of human rights abuses thatGaddafi represented are being re-created in detention centers controlled by rebel fighters who imprison and ...
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DigitalJournal.com
Chemical Weapons Captured in Libya: NTC
CRIENGLISH.com
The NTC official said the weapons were brought into Libya by fallen Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's administration from an Asian country, but he did not name the country. With the help of the international community and organizations, ...
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Libya And Touareg: Balance Changes Along Desert Routes – Analysis
Eurasia Review
The media, especially the French, have so far concentrated on speculation that Muammar Qadhafi is near the Libyan border protected by the Touareg. Some sources also report that the Touareg have recently received a lot of weapons from Libya.Qaddafi's ...
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Tom Toles cartoons for October 2011
Washington Post
Moammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound was once a symbol of the Libyanleader's firm grip on his country; then it became a battle... News and feature images from around the world. Piglets Peanut and Cordelia, two-faced cat, surf dogs and more. ...
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Hugo Chavez sends solidarity to Gaddafi, Syria
Ynetnews
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday he was praying for Libya'sdeposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and also sent a message of solidarity to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against "Yankee" aggression. Chavez - who has inherited Fidel ...
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Sirte facing tragedy as supplies run out
euronews
... as Libya's National Transitional Council has warned them they have two days to get out before they launch a major offensive. Despite the ceasefire fighting has intensified as government forces try to flush out the remainingGaddafi diehards, ...
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euronews
'Sarkozy involved in graft scandal'
Press TV
“I went to see Gaddafi in Libya, and Assad in Syria only on the request and authorization from the president,” the Franco-Lebanese businessman added. The remarks come as Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam had said in March that Libya would publicize all the ...
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Press TV
What Lib Dem members think about the Libya military intervention and its aftermath
Liberal Democrat Voice
LDV asked: How optimistic/pessimistic are you that the outcome of the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya will lead to peaceful and stable self-government without descent into civil war? Two-thirds of party members, regardless of their support for or ...
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Gilmore meets Libyan rebels for trade deals
Irish Independent
... provided to rebel forces in their battle against Gaddafi's forces. A spokesman for Mercury Engineering, which had oil and gas engineers stationed in Benghazi before the war broke out, said: "Our general manager for Libya has revisited the country, ...
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Situation in Libya catastrophic - Red Cross
The Voice of Russia
A representative of the International Red Cross has called the humanitarian situation in the Libyan city of Syrt catastrophic. He said that, in spite of a declared truce, fights between the supporters of overthrown leader Muammar Gaddafi and the ...
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The Voice of Russia
Honk if this seems strange…
Reuters Blogs (blog)
What's up with that? Oh, I think it's that war in Libya. It's getting weirder and weirder, and starting to remind me of tracks off that “Strange Days” album. In this top photo, for instance, you can see an anti-Gaddafi fighter walking his ostrich. ...
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Reuters Blogs (blog)
Democracy or Prosperity, Which Comes First
GhanaWeb
In Libya, a key face of Africa's current democratic revolution, despite is immense oil wealth with a population of only 6.6 million; its problem is that for 42 years it has been despotically rule by Muarmmar Gaddafi. Despite having per capita income of ...
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Two Weeks at the United Nations: a New Regional Order Taking Shape
Huffington Post
On the issue of Libya, the difficult hour has come, after the celebrations of the victory of the opposition and the North Atlantic Trade Alliance (NATO) over the regime of MuammarGaddafi. The time for the big test has come. The Libyan experiment will ...
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Fighting for Sirte
MarketWatch
Heavy fighting continues in Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown and one of his two remaining strongholds, as Libya's interim government plans to call a two-day truce to allow civilians to flee. Courtesy of Reuters.
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Acts by which African leaders could be classified giants or dwarfs
Daily Monitor
Many African leaders continued pretending to support Gaddafi but not the people ofLibya as a whole, even when the United Nations, of which all African states are members, with powerful states such as the Arab states, condemned together with France, ...
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Camp fires
Times of India
Then there are hundreds of families who fled Libya after the uprising in February. Accused of being mercenaries of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, they faced attacks and kidnappings. Mohamed Ismail, a Somali refugee , managed to escapeLibya but his ...
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Roamer's column
Times of Malta
Lawrence Gonzi, whose handling of the situation to our south was impeccable throughoutthe critical six months of the Libyan uprising that saw theend of the Gaddafiregime, will have been chuffed by the positive reactions of the audience at the ...
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Here's looking at you, Rabat
Times of India
"It is here that Morocco can be an example for our societies," said a Libyan jurist, days after the fall of Gaddafi. The hopes centered around Morocco, 'the first democracy in the Arab world' , were evident when its foreign ministry brought together ...
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Treatment to Libyans not putting Maltese at risk - minister
Times of Malta
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi also spoke about the situation in Libya and said that the Maltese had passed their test by taking the right, if risky decisions. Imagine had the country taken a position in favour of Gaddafi, he would have had to hide head ...
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Returned Darfur leader admits working to topple regime
Mail & Guardian Online
He later sought refuge in Chad which expelled him in May 2010 after a surprise rapprochement with Sudan and he moved to Libya, whose then leader MuammarGaddafi offered him sanctuary. The war-torn region's other top rebel chiefs, Minni Minnawi and ...
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We Should Listen to What Abbas Is Really Saying
American Thinker
In an organization where Gaddafi's Libya chaired the Commission on Human Rights, where Saddam Hussein's Iraq headed the Commission on Disarmament, and where Hezbollah's Lebanon sits on the Security Council, Abbas's presence as the voice of the...
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Cold fireplaces at the University of Virginia
Washington Post
Moammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound was once a symbol of the Libyanleader's firm grip on his country; then it became a battle... The Terrapins shake off a dismal first half to earn a win over lower-division Towson. The first phase of the Dulles ...
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Medical emergency fears as Sirte battles rage on
Mail & Guardian Online
"Unfortunately some of these missiles could have fallen into the wrong hands ... abroad," the general told reporters at a former arms depot of Gaddafi in Benghazi. The United States has said it is working closely with Libya's new interim leaders to ...
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Libya: Col Gaddafi denounces Nato-backed 'charade' - Telegraph
Col Gaddafi denounced the new regime in Libya as a Nato-backed "charade" on Tuesday as its leadership basked in the approval of the United Nations and ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Libya-Col-Gaddafi-denounces-Nato-b...
BBC News - Libyan troops clash with pro-Gaddafi forces in Sirte
Troops loyal to Libya's transition government clash with pro-Gaddafi forces in Sirte, one of the ousted leader's last bastions of support.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15047278
Libyan rebels discover Gaddafi's chemical weapons | World news ...
Stockpile of mustard gas found in southern desert, as rebels say they have now taken most of Sebha.
www.guardian.co.uk/.../libyan-rebels-gaddafis-chemical-weap...
Libya News: Gaddafi Hiding Near Algerian Border and Ready for ...
While officials from the National Transitional Council (NTC) have now said that fugitive former leader Moammar Gaddafi could be hiding in the western town of ...
uk.ibtimes.com/.../libya-news-gaddafi-hiding-towards-algerian...
Libya fighters enter Gaddafi city
Anti-Gaddafi fighters have breached the former Libya leader's hometown of Sirte from the east for the first time, as their three-day long assault continues. ...
www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/.../world-africa-15065463
Libyan family killed fleeing Gadhafi hometown - Yahoo! News
Read 'Libyan family killed fleeing Gadhafi hometown' on Yahoo! News. Two children and their parents were killed by machine-gun fire Saturday while trying to ...
news.yahoo.com/libyan-family-killed-fleeing-gadhafi-hometo...
Libyans seek justice, but who goes and who stays?
Charges of collaboration with Gaddafi echo the experience of eastern European countries after 1989. Resentment of the August revolutionaries is Libya's ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../libya-dilemma-over-gaddafi-supporter...
UN urged to secure Gaddafi's stockpiles - RTÉ News
The UN has been told that urgent action is needed to prevent extremists getting hold of weapons stockpiled by the Gaddafi regime.
www.rte.ie/news/2011/0927/libya.html
Libyan interim government forces close in on Sirte | Reuters
SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan provisional government forces have closed in on Muammar Gaddafi loyalists holed up in Sirte, one of the last two bastions of the ...
www.reuters.com/article/.../us-libya-idUSTRE7810I82011092...
War News Updates: Civil War In Libya -- News Updates September ...
Several key Gaddafi supporters have fled to Niger from Sabha, an NTC spokesman said on Thursday. Read more .... More News On Libya's Civil War ...
warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/.../civil-war-in-libya-news-upda...
Libyan forces arrive in Gadaffi hometown | euronews, world news
world news - Forces from Libya's National Transitional Council said on Saturday they had begun swarming into Muammar Gaddafi's home town of Sirte. Officials ...
www.euronews.net/.../libyan-forces-arrive-in-gadaffi-hometo...
Heavy fighting in Gaddafi bastion | Libya News Map
Heavy fighting in Gaddafi bastion. Libya news: September 27th 2011. This page is devoted to the particular event named above. You may use the navigation bar ...
www.maplandia.com/.../heavy-fighting-in-gaddafi-bastion-20...
Niger: Libya's NTC can question Saadi Gaddafi in Niamey
Al Saadi Gaddafi, the third son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, speaks at a news conference in Sydney. NIAMEY (Reuters) - The government of Niger said on ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-niger-gaddafi-saadi-idUSTRE7901YJ2...
Gaddafi says he is still in Libya News
Tripoli, Sep 27 (IANS) Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has said he is still in the country, fighting on the ground and ready to die a martyr, state-run ...
www.inewsone.com/2011/09/27/gaddafi-says-he.../79503
Libya's Gaddafi is poor and honest: spokesman | Top News | Reuters
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's chief spokesman said on Sunday the deposedLibyan leader and his family had not helped themselves to Libya's oil ...
af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE78P00M20110926
Libya News: Civilians flee besieged Sirte - GlobalPost
Libya News: Civilians flee besieged Sirte. One of Muammar Gaddafi's last strongholds is surrounded by rebel forces. Residents leave Sirte to escape the ...
www.globalpost.com/.../libya-news-civilians-flee-besieged-sirt...
NTC Commander: Gaddafi has fled Libya CCTV News - CNTV English
Although the whereabouts of fallen leader Muammar Gaddafi remains a mystery, a spokesman of Libya´s ruling National Transitional Council (NTC) said ...
english.cntv.cn/program/newsupdate/20110929/106135.shtml
NTC Commander: Gaddafi has fled Libya CCTV News - YouTube
TRIPOLI, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Although the whereabouts of fallen leader MuammarGaddafi remains a mystery, a spokesman of Libya's ruling National ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcZGbo2TSzQ

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AFRICA News, Oct 02, 2011


Herman Cain Talks Latest Polls & Chris Christie
Fox News (blog)
Presidential candidate Herman Cain, who's now polling third in the latest Fox News poll, joined “Fox News Sunday” to discuss his recent success and his strategy for winning the Republican nomination. Anchor Chris Wallace asked Cain what's the reason ...
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When women take charge...
East African
Women who have the final say in sexual decisions have sex less often than those whose husbands have the final word, a recent study conducted in East, Southern and West Africa shows. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study — Women's ...
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East African
CDC Protest!
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Oct 02, 2011 (The New Dawn/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- Barely two weeks to elections, the opposition Congress for Democratic Change or CDC is capitalizing on every opportunity from the government of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to lambast ...
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For guitar makers, wood poses quandary
The Tennessean
Environmental Investigation Agency Rosewood is harvested in Madagascar, an island nation off the coast of southern Africa that is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. / Environmental Investigation Agency Latest case: US Fish and Wildlife agents ...
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RBC Dexia appoints Cormac Sheedy to Middle East and Africa role
AME Info
RBC Dexia came out on top of the latest R&M Consultants Global Custody Survey and also excelled in a number of other recent awards, being named 2010 European Custodian of the Year by Funds Europe magazine; #1 global custodian overall for the Americas ...
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Washington is Conqering Africa using France, Human Rights, Terrorism, and the ...
Center for Research on Globalization
In 2010, a NED grant of $140, 186 (US) was one of the latest amounts given to the FIDH for its work in Africa. [2] The NED was also one of the first signatories, along with the Libyan League for Human Rights (LLHR) and UN Watch, demanding international ...
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Center for Research on Globalization
Recruiters hope to convert interest from RWC
Stuff.co.nz
The latest skills index from recruitment firm Candle found many skilled workers andrecent graduates in Australia were seeking better opportunities overseas. Candle general manager Linda Trevor said the trend towards outsourcing lower level IT jobs ...
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Obama to HRC: 'We're making real and lasting change' on LGBT issues
Examiner.com
I said I would never counsel patience; that it wasn't right to tell you to be patient any more than it was right for others to tell African Americans to be patient in the fight for equal rights a half century ago. But what I also said, that while it ...
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Police outreach helps make it safer in Southeast Raleigh
News & Observer
Wright's murder was the latest in a grim trend, coming just after Raleigh's deadliest year. Southeast Raleigh accounted for 60 percent of the 34 citywide homicides in 2008. Since then, there's been a remarkable turnaround. ...
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News & Observer
Area aerospace industry surges
Tulsa World
The recession was the latest body blow to the airline industry, which has lost more than $50 billion and 133000 jobs since the terrorist attacks on 9/11. But recent airline passenger traffic and employment trends are positive, industry officials said. ...
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Tulsa World
Ontario author publishes wordless book to avoid limits of language
The Province
That seems to be the case with Mark Zelinksi's latest book. In Vancouver on Saturday on a combination book tour and charity drive, Zelinski talked about his recentpublication, which is full of pictures — and absolutely no words. ...
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Students abroad pushed out of comfort zones
Times Daily
It's happening in popular destinations as well as more exotic spots in Asia and Africa, where there are fewer Americans, but language and culture barriers make them even more tempted to stick together. And it's happening online, where one study found ...
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Times Daily
New showroom, new Hyundai models
The Zimbabwe Standard
To grace the occasion was the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea, home of Hyundai Motor Company, Lew Kwang Chul and the director of the Africa Regional Headquarters of Hyundai Jang Ho Lee who jointly performed the ribbon-cutting ritual. ...
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Tim Harper: Does a stunner in Alberta promise change elsewhere?
Toronto Star
She has an exotic background, a human rights lawyer who spent part of her youth in Borneo and helped rebuild the legal system in South Africa. She would hardly be a neophyte in federal-provincial relations, having worked for Joe Clark and Brian ...
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Searching for a lost boy in the tumult of Somalia | Philadelphia Inquirer ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
But more recent word has the boy sent to Puntland, a region that is a base for pirates, possibly as a liaison of sorts between the pirates and Shabab. Malik, Ahl's younger brother, arrives in Somalia shortly before him, accompanied by his father-in-law ...
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Look Left – Tory obsession with Europe goes on. And on. And on
Left Foot Forward
The Obama campaign will be watching the Republican primary closely but will also be concerned by the President's dismal approval rating in thelatest Gallup daily tracking poll. With just 39% approving and 52% disapproving, recent polling in a contest ...
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Left Foot Forward
A new banking era after Sept 30
Vanguard
Oceanic Bank is operating under a Transaction Implementation Agreement (TIA) with Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), Union Bank also sealed a merger deal withAfrican Capital Alliance Consortium, Finbank with First City Monument Bank, ...
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Housing complex fight wages on
Chicago Sun-Times
But then in August, the US Department of Justice jumped in and sued Joliet, questioning the city's motives in trying to take over a housing complex where the residents are mostly African-American. And now, for a second time, the US Department of ...
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Woman, 61, caught at Dulles smuggling heroin, feds say
Washington Examiner
Authorities have said that drug smuggling through human couriers who land at Dulles is a growing concern because of the increasing number of direct flights to the airport from high-trafficking areas such as Africa and Latin America. ...
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As the West Celebrates a Cleric's Death, the Mideast Shrugs
New York Times
Even before the eruption of revolts and revolutions, a group that bore some responsibility for two wars and deepening American involvement from NorthAfrica to Iraq was losing its significance. When Osama bin Laden died, his killing seemed more an ...
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New York Times
GLOBAL: Serpentine subduction in transfer
University World News
"Our findings throw into uncertainty a recent conclusion that gases throughout the Earth were solely delivered by meteorites crashing into the planet," Kendrick said. The study shows atmospheric gases are mixed into the mantle, inside the Earth's ...
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University World News
Drowning in drama
ESPNScrum.com (blog)
The focus returned to the action with Samoa and South Africa producing arguably the match of the tournament so far in North Harbour on Friday night. The North Harbour Stadium was rocking as Samoa offered the latest reminder that they are far from a ...
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OCEANIA News, Oct 02, 2011


Billy Corgan Admits Make Or Break Moment for Smashing Pumpkins (A Top Story)
antiMUSIC.com
Here is the recap: (Gibson) Smashing Pumpkins' frontman Billy Corgan says new albumOceania will be a make-or-break moment for his band. The Pumpkins, who have been releasing single tracks online as part of their Teargarden By Kaleidyscope project, ...
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