Gold prices comes down following the global trend

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:07:38 PDT
Gold prices comes down following the trend in the international markets. In the global markets the prices of gold fell below 900 US dollars per ounce.

Pride London reveal more details about trans toilet incident

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:49:02 PDT
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iPhone 3G will be available in 20 more countries August 22nd

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:03:43 PDT
The iPhone 3G is coming to 20 more lucky countries via their various supported carriers. This is yet another step by Apple to dominate the world (insert evil laugh here). This is great news if you live in any of these countries.

Brett farve traded to JETS

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:47:32 PDT
breaking news Farve has been sent packing to the new york jets

Israel On Facebook, Web 2.0 For Beijing China Olympics

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:49:06 PDT
With only 24 hours remaining to the opening ceremonies of the Beijing China 2008 Summer Olympics Games, Web 2.0 is coming alive with Facebook rooms and several blogs being created to support the Israel team. The INA opened a "I Support Israel in the China Olympics" room on Facebook and created a blog at Blogger to provide real time Web 2.0 news.

CBC Newsworld : Passionate Eye Monday : Documentary

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:53:25 PDT
The story that showed on news world tonight.This is just another example of the futility and expense in money and lives that is the drug war.

Lomong's Dad Talks About Son's Olympic Good News (CBS 5 News Syracuse)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:13:01 PDT
In the latest bit of Olympic good news, Tully's Lopez Lomong has been named flagbearer for the U.S. team. Last night he called a neighborhood party to let everyone know the good news.

The Unflattering Way We Dress

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:00:49 PDT
Columnist and editor Charles Moore analyzes the world wide trend of people voluntarily making themselves look less appealing.What does this trend say about us?Moore offers insightful observations.

Pink Paper website will be back

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:25:24 PDT
Concern for missing Ugandan gay rights activist One of three people who demonstrated at an AIDS international conference in Uganda has disappeared. Usaam Auf Mukwaya was arrested at the HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting last month. Congress discussion on Bush impeachment is "anger management" With his run for the White House behind him, Representative Dennis Kucinich got an official airing in the House Judiciary Committee last week in his continued quest to impeach President Bush.

Travel Industry Growth Demands Innovation

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:03:34 PDT
According to the president of Forecasting International, Marvin Cetron, 1.6 billion will travel annually by the year 2020. This forecast was determined based upon the rate at which travel is growing, and has grown over the last couple of years, as discussed in the first part of “10 Travel Trends,” published last month in Travel Weekly.


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Mauritania forces stage coup after officers sacked

NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) - Presidential guardsmen seized Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi in a coup on Wednesday after he sacked several top army officers, and announced that he had been deposed.

Soldiers gathered at the presidential palace after Abdallahi replaced senior army officers during a political crisis in the northwest African country, one of the continent's newest oil producers which also mines iron, copper and gold.

A "State Council" led by one of the sacked officers, former presidential guard chief Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, said Abdallahi was now "former president" and annulled his previous decree sacking Abdelaziz and the heads of the army and Gendarmerie.

The communique, described as the council's "Statement No. 1," was broadcast by Gulf-based al-Arabiya television. State television and radio in Nouakchott had both ceased broadcasting earlier in the day.

Abdallahi won elections last year and took over from a military junta that had ruled since it toppled President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya in a bloodless coup in 2005.

"The security agents of the BASEP (Presidential Security Battalion) came to our home around 9.20 (5:20 a.m. EDT) and took away my father," Amal Mint Cheikh Abdallahi, the president's daughter, told Reuters.

A presidency official who declined to be named said the president, prime minister and interior minister had been arrested and taken to an unknown destination.

Largely desert Mauritania, a former French colony of more than 3 million people, straddles black and Arab Africa.

Abdallahi replaced one government in May following criticism over the government's response to soaring food prices and to attacks over the last year carried out by al Qaeda's north African arm.

But the new government resigned last month in the face of a proposed no-confidence vote.

A new one was formed but without the opposition Union of Forces for Progress (UFP) and Islamist Tawassoul parties which had formed part of the previous government.

This week most of the members of parliament belonging to Abdallahi's PNDD-ADIL party walked out from the party en masse, in a move some political sources said were supported by senior military officials.

 

 

 

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