These pictures I took in Cuba last year of a little boy watching dolphins are dedicated to Etolane. She's pregnant and her first trimester is kind of tough on her.

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Votre vote ne servira à rien, mais c'est toujours amusant de faire comme si... Vous pouvez même donner votre avis sur le continent d'origine du prochain Saint-Père! Étrangement, les participants ne veulent pas de l'ordination des femmes mais souhaitent que le mariage des prêtres soit autorisé. Your vote won't change a thing but you can give your opinion on a lot of questions regarding the next Pope. Weirdly enough, voters are against the ordination of women but want celibacy for priesthood to be optional.

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"Fifty people were killed and about 300 homes were destroyed on the island of Nias, near the epicenter of a massive earthquake that struck off the coast of Indonesia on Monday, a government official there told CNN." Bloggers located in SouthEastern Asia react... Selon CNN, "50 personnes ont été tuées et environ 300 résidences détruites sur l'île de Nias, près de l'épicentre d'un important tremblement de terre qui a eu lieu lundi, au large des côtes de l'Indonésie." Quelques témoignages de blogueurs en Asie du Sud-Est...

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Stonehenge Aotearoa is a project of the Phoenix Astronomical Society and is located near the town of Carterton, in New Zealand.

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The Kyoto Protocol goes into effect Wednesday with most of the industrialized world committed to slash gas emissions but the United States and Australia holding out.

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Although rituals marking the lunar New Year may vary in China and in other Asian cultures, these is only one underlying message "Peace and happiness for friends and family members in the upcoming year."

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Cliff Arnall, an English scientist from Cardiff University has established that Jan. 24 is the worst day of the year.

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It appears that the Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a complaint against Donald Rumsfeld and other high-ranking United States civilian and military officials with the German Federal Prosecutor's Office.

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French survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz have gathered at Paris City Hall for a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of its liberation and to recount the horrors they witnessed. "How can one describe the cold, the hunger, the beatings, the suffering, the screams, the fear, the filth, the misery, the horror, the gas chamber, death?" asked General Andre Rogerie as he recounted being deported at the age of 20 to Auschwitz and his subsequent ordeal.

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Good weather and an unusual combination of planetary influences are drying up Venice, Italy.

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Bush has a personal fortune that would allow anyone to spend his entire life without working...

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"Toyota Canada is abandoning plans to name one of its most popular models of sports cars in this country, the "Celica Tsunami." [...] Exactly one year ago, on Jan. 7, 2004, Toyota announced the name of for the car, calling it "the new wave of bold style." The "Special Edition Celica Tsunami" was to have been a high-performance car, and was to have been available in both red and a colour that was described as "thunder cloud." The car will now be called the Celica Sports Package." [CTV news via Adrants]

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Did anyone really think the US had no ulterior motive when Bush announced a 350 million $ aid to Asian countries struck by the tsunami? Here's why - on Newsday.com - the American governement is being so generous: "The Bush administration is hoping that massive U.S. relief aid to tsunami victims will lessen anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world and bolster the fight against terrorism, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday. "It turns out that the majority of those nations affected were Muslim nations," Powell said. "We'd be doing it regardless of religion, but I think ... [U.S. aid] does give the Muslim world and the rest of the world ... an opportunity to see American generosity, American values in action.""

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These two satellite images show the Indonesian province of Aceh before and after the tsumani.

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From The Guardian, a very disturbing article. "The United States is preparing to hold terrorism suspects indefinitely without trial, replacing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with permanent prisons in the Cuban enclave and elsewhere, it was reported yesterday." No suprise there, we know that Bush's "war on terror" also means "no rights for prisonners". But read very carefully the next paragraph: "The new prisons are intended for captives the Pentagon and the CIA suspect of terrorist links but do not wish to set free or put on trial for lack of hard evidence." Now that is definitely a new vision of justice and democracy. Should we be shocked? Considering Bush's track record (for further details, please watch Fahrenheit 9/11), hell no!

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Après les sarcasmes dûs à l'indifférence initiale de Bush (au sujet de l'aide américaine, lire l'excellent coup de gueule de Benoit Bisson sur Blog-Café qui s'intitule avec justesse La charité du rapace), le Philadelphia Inquirer a décidé de publier une liste (abonnement gratuit requis) des pays qui vont venir en aide aux sinistrés et le montant accordé. Étonnamment, c'est le Japon qui remporte la palme avec 500 millions de $US. Je la reproduis, histoire de la garder en archives:

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A message board for the Phuket area has been set up where you can either let people know you are ok or let people know you are looking for them. Yahoo has a complete list of sites on missing persons and survivors lists as well as a list of blogs on the tsunami. Google concentrates on tsunami relief and lists sites and blogs where you can help.

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Que 2005 vous apporte le bonheur que vous cherchez. "Vous divisez la vie en ce qui est sacré et ce qui ne l'est pas, en ce qui est immoral et ce qui est moral. Cette division engendre des malheurs et de la violence. Tout est sacré ou rien n'est sacré." (Jiddu Krishnamurti / 1895-1986 / La Révolution du silence) May 2005 bring you the happiness you seek. "One has to be a light to oneself; this light is the law. There is no other law. All the other laws are made by thought and so are fragmentary and contradictory. To be a light to oneself is not to follow the light of another, however reasonable, logical, historical, and however convincing. You cannot be a light to yourself if you are in the dark shadows of authority, of dogma, of conclusion." (Jiddu Krishnamurti / This Light in Oneself)

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From FlickrBlog, a series of pictures and links dedicated to the tsunami aftermath.

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Behind every tragedy, there are always stories of courage and hope as well as strange events that - in a certain way - makes it easier to cope with horror.

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A beautiful and touching idea...

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Le Progress M-51, un vaisseau spatial russe entièrement automatisé a livré de la nourriture aux astronautes de la station spatiale internationale (ISS) aujourd'hui. Il ne leur restait que moins de deux semaines de victuailles, l'équipe précédente ayant trop mangé! Selon les règlements - qui n'ont pas été respectés - la station doit être évacuée quand il y a moins de 45 jours de nourriture à bord! [Suite et détails en anglais sur The Scotsman]

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"The world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years triggered massive tidal waves that slammed into villages and seaside resorts across southern and southeast Asia on Sunday, killing more than 7,000 people in six countries. [...] Quakes reaching a magnitude 8 are very rare. A quake registering magnitude 8 rocked Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Sept. 25, 2003, injuring nearly 600 people. An 8.4 magnitude tremor that stuck off the coast of Peru on June 23, 2001, killed 74."

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Amazing! This guy, who calls himself Spiderman climbed to the top of the world's tallest buildin. From USA Today: "Alain Robert, 42, took almost four hours to reach the top of the 1,679-foot building. The climb took him nearly twice as long as he had expected, partly because of dreary weather. Although he's climbed many of the world's tallest structures without the use of a rope, he climbed with one on Saturday, likely because of the wind and rain. He paused to rest every eighth floor and even chatted with the president of Taipei 101 before tackling the final stretch."

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IKONOS satellite has taken more than 1.7 million images of the Earth since its launch in Sept. 1999. This year, the public will determine the "the 10 most spectacular images taken by IKONOS during 2004."

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On November 22, VotersUnite has "officially launching a presidential recount effort between George Bush and John Kerry. More than anyone we want to put this election to rest, and hope that this recount will help several of our readers have closure. Our goal is to have 100,000,000 votes by January 1, 2005 to see who really won the popular vote. " I really don't see what good will come out of this, especially if Kerry wins the recount. The election is over and the winner has been declared...

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In 1978, "The bodies of 914 people, including 276 children, have been found in Guyana in South America. Most of the dead - members of the People's Temple Christian Church - had consumed a soft drink laced with cyanide and sedatives. " [Via BBC - On this day]

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Is GW incoherent or are news agencies misquoting - or wrongly interpreting - what the President is saying? Associated Press - Jennifer Loven: "Bush Paints Rosy Picture of Iraq Situation President Bush painted a rosy picture of the situation in Iraq, claiming significant progress Saturday in the U.S. military's battle in an insurgent stronghold. In his weekly radio address, Bush praised the assault on Fallujah, west of Baghdad." Reuters - Unattributed: "Bush Warns of Growing Violence in Iraq President Bush warned on Saturday that guerrilla violence in Iraq could worsen, even as U.S. forces battled to stamp out resistance in the insurgent stronghold of Falluja." Same date, roughly same time, same event, different conclusions...

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"CBS News has fired the producer responsible for interrupting the last five minutes of a hit crime drama with a special report on the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), a network source said on Friday."

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"The last two days were very painful, very difficult days," said chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat, who confirmed Arafat's death Thursday morning. "And now, after these painful days of President Arafat, he is dead."

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Now that GW has won the election and - by a very twisted leap of logic - used al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden to justify the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, there's absolutely no reason to hunt him down.

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Help.Them.Leave.com is a strange website offering help to Americans that want to leave their countries to escape Bush. "In return for your irrevocable renunciation of your United States citizenship, and a sworn statement that you will never return, we will provide free one-way transportation to one of our politically matched recommended countries on one of the jets we have chartered to provide this service." The countries are: Anarchists: Antartica, Communists: Cuba or North Korea, Leftists: France, Germany, Italy or Spain and Socialists: Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, Norway, or Sweden.

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The BBC reports this morning that: "A woman undergoing cancer treatment has had her fertility saved after doctors transplanted her ovary into her arm." Although I can understand why a woman would ask for this, I'm not sure it should be allowed. Between stem cell research and procedures like this one, isn't our world - slowly but surely - starting to resemble Aldoux Huxley's Brave New World?

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USA Today had published statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Justice. It appears "the population of the nation's state and federal prisons rose to a record 1.47 million last year. [...] But the rate of growth continues to slow down, suggesting that fewer new inmates are entering prison, but those who are there are serving longer sentences and failing to win early release. The result is a prison population that is more middle-aged than ever."

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Here are some useful links to better understand who Yasser Arafat is and what his legacy will be.

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Here's one hell of a reality check... just ask the male bass in the Potomac River why they're producing eggs!

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I know... (sigh) It won't change the result and Bush will still be president for four more - very long - years, but news agencies are starting to report irregularities that occured during the Nov. 2 election.

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For those interested in the complete speeches by both men, here is Kerry's and Bush's.

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MSNBC ran an Associated Press paper a few days ago on the total cost of the election. "In the business world, $5 billion would be enough to buy out Donald Trump -twice. It would pay for about 2,200 Super Bowl commercials, or educate about 30,000 students at Yale, the alma mater of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry. [...] It's a lot of money - but still a bargain compared with what it could cost to match the net worth of the nation's wealthiest person, Bill Gates. The Microsoft founder could cover campaigning and voting costs for about eight elections like this one - without going broke."

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According to Reuters via Yahoo, President Bush plans to declare victory in the 2004 election if he wins one of two remaining states, Nevada or New Mexico, and assumes he has already won Ohio, a senior adviser said early on Wednesday. The official said the White House considered Bush's electoral count to be at 269, including Ohio's 20 electoral votes, and did not believe the state's disputed provisional ballots would be enough to eliminate Bush's lead in the regular vote count there. "We won Ohio. It's done," the official said.

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Take this BBC report of Hamid Karzai set to be declared winner in Afghanistan, replace Karzai with Bush and Afghanistan with the US and there you have it: Karzai Bush set to be declared winner A panel investigating the Afghan US presidential elections says voting irregularities were not enough to affect the final outcome. Officials say that paves the way for incumbent president Hamid Karzai Bush to be declared the winner. One election official, Sultan Baheen, has already told the AFP news agency that "Karzai Bush is the winner".

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Those four words, heard over and over again last night, are still - as of this morning - the overall election results: no winner has been declared.

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What states will vote and until what time? Here's a timetable from the BBC.

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Here's a quick poll to know on what news network you'll watch the US election results.

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Hard to know which candidate will profit from the latest Bin Laden tape... Bush? Kerry? Or maybe it won't change a thing. You can also read Dan Gilmor's analysis: How Kerry Would Govern, and How Bush Does Govern.

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Al-Jazeera released a tape of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden yesterday.

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The story could be funny if terrorists weren't still a threat. But it's just plain outrageous to find out what Homeland security is doing instead of tracking down real terrorists and making sure the US is safe.

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CyberJournalist.net lists five sites with interactive features that "help readers better understand the electoral process and select which candidate is likely to come out on top in electoral votes."

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"The last eclipse of 2004 occurs on the evening of Wednesday, October 27 (in Europe, the eclipse occurs during the early morning hours of Thursday, October 28). This event is a total eclipse of the Moon which will be visible from North and South America as well as Europe, Africa and Antarctica. During such an eclipse, the Moon's disk can take on a dramatically colorful appearance from bright orange to blood red to dark brown and (rarely) very dark gray."

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Fourteen years ago: "The Royal Geographical Society has unveiled evidence that the devastated region around the Aral Sea in Central Asia is the world's worst ecological disaster. Three British scientists have just come back from a visit to the lake that straddles the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. What was once the fourth largest area of fresh water in the world has shrunk by two-thirds. It has fallen in depth by more that 14 metres (45 feet) in the past 30 years endangering the lives of the four million inhabitants of the region."

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"Six blood relatives of President Bush who support John F. Kerry's bid for the presidency have launched a website to publicize their sharp disagreements with Bush's policies. The site, www.bushrelativesforkerry.com, consists of personal statements from a group of decidedly liberal second cousins of the president, none of whom knows him personally. All are grandchildren of Mary Bush House, the sister of Prescott Bush, a former US senator from Connecticut and the father and grandfather of the two Bush presidents." [Via The Boston Globe]

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Horrible and funny at the same time: "An Australian journalist kidnapped in Iraq was freed after his captors checked the popular internet search engine Google to confirm his identity. [...] "They Googled him and then went onto a web site - either his own or his book publisher's web site, I don't know which one - and saw that he was who he was, and that was instrumental in letting him go, I think, or swinging their decision," he told AP news agency." [Via BBC]

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New York Times has just launched its photo archives, contaning over 1,000 shots. You can buy them framed or signed. (All the previews are watermarked)

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"During the home stretch of the Northamerican elections, Osama bin Laden could prove to be the ace in the sleeve of president Bush. As we speak, Washington is negotiating a highly secretive agreement with Beijing, the Chinese capital, for the eviction of bin Laden from his sanctuary in the turbulent Muslim provinces of China, in the Northwest of the Great Wall nation." Read the rest on The Minority Report.

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"Over the stern objections of a judge from Puerto Rico, a federal appeals court in Boston ruled yesterday that US citizens living in Puerto Rico do not have the right to vote in presidential elections. In a two-page opinion, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, relying on two prior rulings, concluded that the US Constitution does not confer voting rights on Puerto Rico, an American territory whose residents were granted US citizenship in 1917. But in a sharply worded dissent, Judge Juan R. Torruella of Puerto Rico wrote, ''What we have in this case is without question the creation and perpetuation of substandard, second-class citizens, with less rights than those enjoyed by the main class of US citizens." [Via INTL News by Joe Broadhurst]

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A funny telephone poll conducted by SaltwaterPizza. Scott Niven, who has balls and imagination, called people named George Bush or John Kerry to see who they intended to vote for. Here's what he found out.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger became the 38th Governor of California on November 17, 2003. In almost a year, he has passed numerous bills banning things ranging from sunbathing to force feeding of ducks and geese. Here's a tentative list...

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Kenyan environmentalist and human rights campaigner Wangari Maathai has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Fabiano Prado Barretto, a Brazilian photographer who finds garbage from around the globe on a north-east beach in Brazil, returns it to respective embassies. On his Global Garbage website he gives details, statistics and presents pictures of his findings: 730 pieces of garbage from 48 different countries and five continents were collected on 68 km of beach at Costa dos Coqueiros, north coast of Bahia, Brazil.

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John Lennon's killer is due to go before a parole board this week: "It will be the third parole hearing for Chapman, whose previous requests to be set free were rejected." Online petitions (PETITION AGAINST THE PAROLE OF Mark David Chapman, Deny Mark David Chapman Parole Petition and Online Petition - No Parole for Mark David Chapman) are calling for Chapman to remain in prison for the rest of his natural life.

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Former US President Jimmy Carter says conditions for a fair election still do not exist in the state of Florida. In an article in the Washington Post, Mr Carter wrote Florida's electoral officials have proven to be highly partisan. He says Florida's Republican governor Jeb Bush, a strong supporter of his brother George W Bush, has taken no steps to correct this and "some basic international requirements for a fair election are missing". [ABC NewsOnline, BBC, Reuters, Telegraph and The Guardian]

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Eventhough there is a controversy over the monument's construction date, celebrations marking the 350th anniversary of the Taj Mahal have begun in Agra.

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Reuters' global managing editor has openly acknowledged that Arab intimidation influences his agency’s news coverage. So guess what... Canadian media organisation CanWest is replacing every instance of 'militants', 'activists', 'gunmen' etc. in Reuters dispatches by the more accurate and honest 'terrorists'. And Live From Brussels blogger has a Movable Type plugin, the CanWest filter. Just unzip and drop it into your MT plugins folder, and when publishing an MT entry select the 'CanWest' filter as text formatting. It will change all instances of the words militant, activist, fighter, gunman and resistance into the T-word... [Via editorsweblog]

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Very (and I mean very) interesting analysis by Babak Layeghi on what the War on Terror is really about. Here is an excerpt: "Using 9/11 as a pretext, the United States has managed to strategically surround Russia, its Cold-War enemy. [...] Hence, it should not come as a surprise, for one to recognize the fact that the US today, has over a hundred military bases and installations scattered throughout the world, yet more importantly there are more American bases in the former Soviet states than Russia has itself." I may not totally agree with him, but his views shed a different light on what's been going on for the last three years.

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From IOL, a story about democracy at its finest: "There's only one registered voter in the remote village of Miao... but Indian election workers insist they're going to keep the village's polling booth open all day long. After all, that's the law. Manjulikh Chakma, a 26-year-old tribal woman, is the only registered voter in Miao, a village of 150 families in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which holds state elections October 7."

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Environmentalist organizations warn "that pollution and abuse of the oceans will kill all coral reefs by the year 2050. In the Florida Keys, in the southern part of the U.S. about 90 percent of the coral reef is already gone. Hurricanes, pollution and global warming, are responsible." The English Chosun explains that "the new Coral Genetic Bank is working to repopulate dead and depleted coral in the Keys."

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Via Dotjournalism: "Former Observer editor Jonathan Fenby has launched an innovative news and current affiars site that aims to predict the news. Earlywarning.com will use a network of established journalists based around the world to provide insight and analysis on news events. By writing about the forces behind these events, says Mr Fenby, the publishers aim to forecast what will happen, rather than respond to it."

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Diplomats from eight countries (Britain, the Czech Republic, Germany, India, Mongolia, Poland, Russia and Sweden) left the North Korean capital by plane at 0800 (2300 GMT on Wednesday) to visit the site of a blast in North Korea.

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It seems that Putin's pre-emptive measures are not resolving the issue in Chechnya. According to the Pravda: Terrorists down Russian Mi-24 helicopter in Chechnya. "The helicopter was attacked with a grenade-launcher, as it was flying on the height of 10-15 meters. The helicopter was also attacked with automatic fire," a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said. However, another anonymous source told Interfax that the information about an anti-aircraft weapon downing the helicopter was not true to fact: "A portable anti-aircraft system cannot down air targets at the height of 10-15 meters," the news agency quoted the source as saying.

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A Cuban man carries wooden planks on his bike in Havana, September 11, 2004, to protect his house from approaching Hurricane Ivan. Cubans are stocking up on goods and food as deadly Hurricane Ivan ripped Jamaica with powerful winds, torrential rains and huge waves today, tearing away houses and washing out roads before heading toward the tiny Cayman Islands and Cuba. Forecasters predict the worst hurricane in 60 years to hit Cuba could arrive here by September 13. [Reuters]

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Three years after Sept. 11, the question remains: is Bin Laden still alive or is he dead?

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The Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) takes place in August and September 2004. Three icebreakers head for a position at 88 degrees North. Only 250 kilometres away from the North Pole Arctic Ocean sediments will be cored. The deposits from the sea-floor will reveal the global climate swing from an extremely warm "greenhouse" world 50 million years ago to the ice-age era beginning 3.2 million years ago which still persists today.

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Seven countries in the world use the death penalty against children: China, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Philippines, Iran, Sudan and the USA. According to Amnesty International, since 2000, only five countries are known to have executed juvenile offenders: China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Pakistan, and the USA. 13 of these 21 executions have been in the USA.

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I kept 3 newspapers from Sept. 12, and one dated from Sept. 11, with no mention of the tragedy. To see the full paper, click on the link below the images (opens a new window - files may take some time to download as they are a bit heavy).

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Having learned well from Bush, Russia has claimed the right to strike pre-emptively "terrorist bases" anywhere in the world. Putin offered 300m roubles ($10m) for information leading to the arrest of Chechen rebel leaders and in return, Chechen rebels promised to give $20 million to anyone helping them to capture President Vladimir Putin. Prone to use of violence to resolve any issue, British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw said Putin's move was understandable. In its very enlightened editorial, The Daily Times (Pakistan) offers the following analysis: "All paradigms of security spring from one basic concept: self-preservation. But when people are pushed to a point where life becomes meaningless and when they are prepared to kill and get killed, they upend the concept of self-preservation. The resolve to lose life if it means perpetrating violence on the oppressor is hard to beat with mere use of force. The problem can only be tackled by going to the very root of that anger and desperation. But the Russian General’s statement does not indicate that Moscow is thinking of doing that. Its troops have carried out a systematic male genocide in Chechnya over the past four years, leaving thousands of Chechen women widows. Now these women are striking back and losing their lives and killing others in the process. This cycle cannot be allowed to go on. The US General’s statement upon arriving in Moscow is even more irksome because it shows Washington is prepared to give President Vladimir Putin a virtual carte blanche to go on doing exactly that which has already resulted in so much bloodshed. This is a recipe for disaster."

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Despite widespread popular support, the federal law banning the sale of 19 kinds of semiautomatic assault weapons is almost certain to expire on Monday. [New York Times] The daily paper also mentions: "Efforts to renew the ban, which polls show is supported by at least two-thirds of Americans, have faltered this year on Capitol Hill. [...] "I think the will of the American people is consistent with letting it expire, so it will expire," Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader, said on Wednesday."

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An excellent - and beautiful - idea in Geneva, Switzerland. The streets near Place du Molard have been repaved with cobblestones with "cobbleglass". The cobbleglass is light up at night and each one engraved with a few words, in a different language. [via we make money not art]

© Ville de Genève

It was almost three years ago. Blogs weren't as popular as they are today, but some bloggers - especially New Yorkers - posted live accounts of the events. Here are some September 11th 2001 posts.

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Yup! You can send him a message by selecting "Send a get well wish to the President". [via Scripting News]

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Via AP (on Yahoo!): Queen Hello Kitty doll in a diamond-studded crown and robe holding a scepter decorated with a 0.753-carat pink diamond is displayed by salesclerk Chiharu Ono at Tokyo's Mitsukoshi Department Store Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2004. The 10 million yen (US$91,600) platinum made Hello Kitty with a total of 4.1-carat diamond was made to mark the 30th birthday of the world's renowned kitten, celebrated in November.

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It is no secret that China monitors and censors web sites and SMS. What is less known is the way the Chinese governement and ISPs proceed to do so, as well as the list of banned words.

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"This is the geekiest protest sign ever -- photo taken by a friend in New York" says Phil Haack who posted this picture on his blog.

Brad Kagawa via Kyle, via You've been hacked, via Boing-Boing

Bushgame is an anti-Bush videogame. Bushgame combines humor, opinion, and fact to bring an entertaining and informative video game adventure to people everywhere. The use of this medium will hopefully reach many people who have not had the time or interest to read up on some of the appalling things that have taken place in our government and society over the past four years. For those of you who are paying attention, hopefully this game has helped to clarify some of the important things at stake in the upcoming elections. I realize that this game does not cover every issue, problem, and appalling action of the Bush administration. There are too many stories to report. Some issues ended up taking a back seat to others. Just know that this is just a silly game and please inform yourself for real and read books...and most importantly...please vote.

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Opposition is growing against the Republican National Convention, which started yesterday.

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RWB just gave a gold medal to China for human rights violations. China's repression of dissidents, including journalists and cyber-dissidents, has not let up during these games. The People's Republic of China is the world's biggest prison for the press. Twenty-seven journalists and more than 60 Internet users are detained for crimes of opinion.

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Unfortunately, I have to say that Yoko Ono is a sell out. She just signed a deal with Nike, enabling the company to market John Lennon sneakers. Cool? Think again. Nike... mmm... isn't that the company manufacturing sneakers in sweat shops? Yup! That's what I thought. (via La Tribu du Verbe)

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According to Le Monde.fr, George Bush has spent 209,5 million $ for his reelection. He only has 32,5 million $ left until november.

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According to Le Monde.fr, George Bush has spent 209,5 million $ for his reelection. He only has 32,5 million $ left until november.

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Scary and ridiculous come to mind... Other distasteful examples can be found at Republican Gear.

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Starbucks Coffee International and its Turkish licensee, Shaya Kahve Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S., today celebrated the opening of the first two Starbucks locations in Ankara.

Starbucks in the city of Erenkôy © Starbucks

From August 3-31, the Monday through Saturday issues of The Times will be printed digitally in Athens, Greece. The entire Sunday newspaper will be flown in to Athens from the U.S. and available for sale the following Monday. The Times will be distributed throughout the city, the Olympic Village and media centers, and to major hotels by 11 a.m. local time (4 a.m. E.D.T.).

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There has been some talk about the treatment of Guantanamo prisoners but as any news story, it rapidly faded into oblivion replaced by John Kerry and the Athens Olympics. I found these pictures while surfing for information on how many Gitmo prisoners has been released and what fate awaited those still in Cuba... I havent't found the answer yet but I'm still searching. Lynndie England is being tried, but I doubt any legal measures will be taken against the American soldiers that have mistreated Gitmo prisoners for two long years. And we thought Abu Ghraib was bad!

Prisoners being transported to Guantanamo © La Voz de Aztlan

Did you know that the official Olympic Games emblem was created by Michel Vermeulen, a Quebecer?

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An excellent publication from Marie Stopes International Australia: Your Passport to Sexual Health (PDF 756 KB). (More info on The holiday essential - Your passport to sexual health)

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The Statue of Liberty is set to reopen on August 3 after being closed for nearly three years.

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Philippe Roy, a Canadian journalist in China, drew my attention on the China International Adult Toys and Reproductive Health Exhibition which will take place in August. "The time of being shocked at the mention of sex or regarding sex as an evil has gone by. Now in China, the civilized sexual concept has widely prevailed . Aboomingadult toy sand reproductive health care market to 1.3 billion population, with incomparable scale, increasing trend and development potential, has come into being while sex has become one of the most popular topics for public discussion. Data pertinent to the current national sales volume of sex health care products shows that the latest annual turnover has exceeded RMB100 billion in 2003, and the rate of increase is approximately at 30%."

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The 4,000 square meter R.M.S. Titanic Exhibition will debut at the Oriental Pearl Tower Exhibition Center in Shangai, beginning August 12th and continuing through October 10th, 2004.

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He is the most beloved and revered of all the Hindu gods, and is always invoked first in any Hindu ceremony or festival. Ganesh is the Hindu elephant-headed god, Ganesha (or Ganesh) is known (by various names in different parts of India and on different occasions) as the Remover of Obstacles, the god of domestic harmony and of success.

Photo: Hinduism

The Washington Post lists all the salaries of the White House staff. An Assistant to the President for Communications makes a nice $157,000! But James Baker, the Special Presidential Envoy On Iraqi Debt gets... nothing!

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The latest Newsweek Poll shows that a Kerry/Edwards ticket would get 51 percent of the vote versus 45 percent for the incumbent Bush/Cheney ticket. That marks a five-point bump for Edwards from the last Newsweek Poll (May 13-14). However, in a three-way trial heat, with Independent Party candidate Ralph Nader, Kerry/Edwards leads with 47 percent, Bush/Cheney follows with 44 percent and Nader garners 3 percent of the vote. Kerry has benefited from the Edwards annoucement, the only question is if he'll be able te maintain the lead.

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... for more than 1,000 American soldiers who have died uselessly in Iraq. Another 60 seconds for the Israeli wall that has been ruled illegal by the International Court of Justice. Any resemblance to persons living or dead, or to the Warsaw ghetto is purely coincidental. Yet another 120 seconds for again learning that the Iraq war [was] 'waged on false intelligence'. And the final 120 billion nanoseconds is for American scientists that aren't allowed, under the Bush administration, to express their views and discuss their research with colleagues in other countries. Frank Herbert once wrote in The Children of Dune, "Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike [...]. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself -- a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred."

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Cooley Godward LLP and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law of Texas (Texas Lawyers' Committee) have filed a national class-action lawsuit against Attorney General John Ashcroft and Secretary Tom Ridge, head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for denying proof of status to lawful permanent residents.

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On July 4th, the city of Colmar, in the Alsatian region of France has unveiled the largest replica of the Statue of Liberty. This will mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, the Statue of Liberty's sculptor, who was born in Alsace.

© Tourisme Alsace

The NASA spacecraft reached the planet's orbit after a seven year journey.

© NASA/JPL

A resolution of formal apology for "a long history of official depradations and ill-conceived policies" has been quietly cleared for a Senate vote.

© 2004 Smithsonian Institution

The A340-500 departed at 12:25 Singapore local time on June 28th and completed the 16,600 km / 9,000 nautical mile sector to New York in 18 hours 18 minutes. The airline beat its own previous distance record for non-stop round-trip commercial service, when it introduced the A340-500 on the route between Singapore and Los Angeles on February 3rd of this year. On that occasion, the A340-500 completed the 14,093 km / 7,609 nm sector to Los Angeles in 14 hours 42 minutes.

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Monica Lewinsky speaks up on Clinton's memoirs. In British papers, she "accused the former president of trying to destroy her with his characterisation of the affair as "disgusting", arguing that the liaison was one of mutual affection. "I think what he has written and said is horrible," she told the newspaper. "The adjectives he used ... have made me feel as any woman would feel, like an insignificant piece of dirt."

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To the eyes of the world, Canada stands as a defender of human rights, individual liberties and democracy. Good PR job there, but is it true?

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U.K. newspapers to offer music downloads! The Guardian, through a partnership with EMI, is set to become the first U.K. newspaper to offer downloading of songs for 99 pence each to its online readers. The system is modeled on iTunes, Apple's pay-by-the-song, legal music downloading platform.

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In commemoration of the beginning of 400 years of French culture in North America, dignitaries from France, Canada and the United States will participate in ceremonies on Saint Croix Island on June 26.

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Here is a quick news review.

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Islamist radicals killed an American engineer held hostage in Saudi Arabia, then posted photographs of the man’s severed head and bloodied corpse on an Islamist Web site Friday.

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To celebrate its 25th birthday, Delta will recreate its first flight from Dallas Love Field to Jackson, Mississippi. Delta's first passenger airplane, the vintage Travel Air and the fully-restored DC-3 will depart Dallas Love Field with stops in Shreveport and Monroe, Louisiana.

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Read in The Center for Consumer Freedom: What do basketball stars Kobe Bryant, Karl Malone, and Ben Wallace all have in common? [...] The U.S. government actually considers them "overweight." Lakers superstar Shaquille O'Neal is officially "obese." In fact, by the federal government's standard, 75 percent of the players in the NBA Finals are classified as either overweight or obese. [...] Why does the government think these top athletes need to lose weight? Because current government standards make no distinction between muscle and fat. And in 1998, the U.S. government changed the cutoff for overweight.

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The five most expensive cities in the world are: Tokyo, London, Moscow, Osaka and Hong Kong.

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Anne Frank was born June 12th, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main. She would have been 75 yesterday. The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam (Netherlands) organized a photo exhibit to commemorate the event.

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Today is the World Day Against Child Labour and I found an old picture, dating from 1908 that - unfortunately - still illustrates how children are being exploited in many countries.

© Ibis Communications, Inc.

Reagan's funeral on the 11th... doesn't that ring a bell? Michele Catalano from A Small Victory raises the - obvious now that she mentions it - possibility of a terrorist attack. Paranoia? I'm not sure. She does have a point. But then again, Bin Laden and al-Qaeda are known for preparing their attacks. I'm not sure they can be ready on such short notice or even willing to take a chance their action might fail.

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Interesting editorial which examines how Ronald Reagan became, with a few eulogies, an excellent president.

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The planet Venus is making a very rare passage across the face of the Sun - an event not witnessed since 1882.

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Independent book sellers are listing eighteen signed copies of Ronald Reagan's autobiography "An American Life". At time of release, prices ranged from $500 to $4,000, but these prices are expected to rise.

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The former U.S. president died yestreday after a long battle with Alzheimers disease. Here are world reactions.

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A total of 2,000 gold and 20,000 silver proof D-Day 60th Anniversary coins will be minted, but only the first 200 of each will be specially designated.

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CIA Director George Tenet resigned as head of the U.S. intelligence agency, President Bush announced Thursday.

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This could happen in twenty years or less.

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The guy could be wrong... but this article in The Independant raises the question of House of Saud's uncertain future. A must-read.

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Jennifer Hawkins has been crowned Miss Universe at the competition final in Ecuador.

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As reported by Reuters and CNN, San Francisco-based U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton said the law was unconstitutional because it was vague and posed an "undue burden" on abortion rights.

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For 40 $ you can order one of these beautiful Air France posters. Here are the ones I like best.

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In his column entitled America's Abu Ghraibs, The New York Time's Bob Herbert reports: Not only are inmates at prisons in the U.S. frequently subjected to similarly grotesque treatment, but Congress passed a law in 1996 to ensure that in most cases they were barred from receiving any financial compensation for the abuse. We routinely treat prisoners in the United States like animals. We brutalize and degrade them, both men and women. And we have a lousy record when it comes to protecting well-behaved, weak and mentally ill prisoners from the predators surrounding them. Very few Americans have raised their voices in opposition to our shameful prison policies. And I'm convinced that's primarily because the inmates are viewed as less than human. Scary!

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Here are some world news that have just made my day!

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U.S. Postal Service issues the National World War II Memorial postage stamp at 1:25 p.m. EST May 29 in Washington, DC.

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It seems U.S. troops were not the only ones having a field day with Iraqi prisoners.

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No sooner had John Ashcroft warned of a new al-Qaida terror threat that doubts began to emerge.

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The Southern California office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) published a full - page ad denouncing all forms of terror carried out in the name of religion.

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A Minnesota gunmaker is offering the widest range of new "copycat" assault weapon models of any firearms manufacturer in America.

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British arctic adventurer Ben Saunders, 26, has become the youngest solo explorer to cross the Arctic Ocean from Russia to the North Pole.

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... this would be the verdict. I especially like : For example, Korea does not have a jury system, prohibits plea bargains, and trials are often non-confrontational presentations of evidence.

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UFO sightings have increased in Iran.

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Insurgents in Fallujah offer a $ 15 million reward for the heads of top U.S. officials in Iraq.

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You probably don't remember the number of casualties... And there's no reason you should because it seems officals prefer talking about money: North Korea Reports Blast Damage at $365M. Everybody should be able to remember that.

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Asian countries, including China, are talking about the introduction of a common currency to counterbalance the Euro and the U.S. dollar.

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Nine Indians, including software czar Azim Premji and telecom tycoon Sunil Mittal, have been featured in Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's billionaires.

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Abdel Aziz Rantissi was killed Saturday in Gaza when an Israeli helicopter destroyed his car with two missiles near his home.

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Media across the world have reacted to yesterday's speech by President George W. Bush on Iraq.

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It started yesterday and today, the situation in both Iraq and Afghanistan is getting worst as violence rises.

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United Arab Emirates (UAE) are developing "The World", a series of 200 islands positioned to form a map of the world.

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China reports the lifespan of intellectuals is 58 years old.

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IKEA has denied reports Ingvar Kamprad, its founder, is the richest man in the world.

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In the Beijing suburbs, a tomb is three times more expensive than a house.

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According to Lemonde.fr, Wall-Mart:

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A bomb was found on a rail line in Spain, Israeli police storm a Jerusalem holy site and a bomb explodes in Iraq.

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In his recent book, Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu challenges world leaders.

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Chinese official news agency is having a field-day, announcing that Tibet is now home for it's first-ever billionaire.

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"ITV is preparing a political version of the hit talent show Pop Idol in an attempt to find a prospective Member of Parliament to stand in the next general election."

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Warren A. White interviewed Ahmed Mohamed, author of the book "An Islamic Conspiracy for World Conquest".

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According to news agencies, an explosive device was found buried under train tracks east of Paris. But reports are contradictory.

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In an interview to be aired on Australia's Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Monday, Hamid Mir claims the terrorist organization bought "smart briefcase bombs" on the black market in central Asia.

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Women gathered in New Delhi on March 20th to launch an international campaign to nominate 1000 women for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize.

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The US House of Representatives passed a bill increasing the reward for information leading to the arrest of the al-Qaeda leader.

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According to Middle East Online, the two al-Qaeda leaders are safely hiding in Afghanistan.

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The terrorist organization released a statement through al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper.

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President Bush has asked his two top aides not to get involved in his election campaign.

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Jose Maria Aznar's support of the US war in Iraq cost him his job as Prime Minister.

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Spanish interior minister announced that police investigating the Madrid train bombings arrest three Moroccans and two Indian nationals.

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According to CNN "While a group claiming to represent al Qaeda said it was behind the attack, intelligence sources have consistently told CNN that the group does not speak for al Qaeda, and is unreliable."

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As CNN reports "At least 131 people were killed and more than 400 injured in a series of explosions on Madrid's railway network at the height of morning rush hour, according to the the security minister for Madrid's regional government." Here is a list of Spanish blogs talking about the event (the list will be updated throughout the day).

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An Associated Press article published by The Guardian raises questions on the fate of the five Britons released by the U.S.

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A survey of health related behaviors among military personnel conducetd by the Department of Defense (DoD) shows US troops are stressed.

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Apparently President Bush should announce economic sanctions against Syria in a move to punish the country for not addressing US concerns.

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42% of the US population can either barely afford to make minimum payments on credit card balances or is unable to make payments at all.

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CNN learned US forces will use high-tech equipment to monitor the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan 24/7.

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Safety certificates have been granted by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture to foreign compagnies importing genetically modified crops in China. The first company to be OK'ed is Monsanto, the American biotech firm.

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No oil ... no one did anything, Aristide just left the country...

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Quoting Iran's state radio, The Associated Press announced that Bin Laden had been captured in Pakistan a long time ago, information denied by a Pakistan army spokesman.

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A new statewide sex offender Internet database intended to help the public better identify the location of the State's most serious sex offenders has been launched yesterday. Unfortunately, as of this morning, the web site was not up.

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Why would President Bush jump in the high-risk same-sex marriage issue on an electoral year? Here are some hypotheses.

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In today's online edition of Le Monde.fr, Marie-Pierre Subtil describes the death of regions that used to be part of the Soviet Republic. The area of Veliki Novgorod is a typical example of what's happening. Between 1965 and 2001, the mortality rate due to murders, suicides, road accidents, poisonings and other violent deaths has more than doubled.

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At 8:30 this morning in Montreal, news agencies all over the world are reporting that Americans may have cornered Bin Laden, but the media in the U.S. are mum on the subject.

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The Chicago Tribune will publish in it's February 22nd edition, the results of a poll indicating that democratic frontrunner John Kerry would defeat President Bush if the general election were held today.

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President Bush's approval ratings have remained stable though just over half the public approves of the job he is doing.

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In a press release, Greenpeace announced it had learned that three genetically engineered (GE) pigs had been released into the food chain, although these animals have never been tested for human safety.

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Rail Europe announced that it is offering U.S. and Canadian veterans a free France Railpass this summer during the celebration of the 60th anniversary of D-Day.

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Professor Dominique Belpomme is President of the Association for Research on Treatment Against Cancer (ARTAC). In a recent book, Ces maladies créées par l'homme, Comment la dégradation de l'environnement met en péril notre santé (These illnesses caused by humans - How the degradation of our environment puts our health at risk), he outlines the dangers of pollution, stressing that in France, 2/3 of cancers can be linked to poor environmental conditions.

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Professor Dominique Belpomme is President of the Association for Research on Treatment Against Cancer (ARTAC). In a recent book, Ces maladies créées par l'homme, Comment la dégradation de l'environnement met en péril notre santé (These illnesses caused by humans - How the degradation of our environment puts our health at risk), he outlines the dangers of pollution, stressing that in France, 2/3 of cancers can be linked to poor environmental conditions.

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A Canadian athlete has started promoting beer. But it’s not just any beer, the new Molson Ultra is a low carbohydrate beer with fewer calories (2.5 grams of carbohydrates and 97 calories per bottle). Are we impressed or what?

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Results, today, in Amsterdam, of the World Press Photo contest. While waiting for the winners, go take a look at last year's pictures. Extraordinary! Résultats, aujourd'hui à Amsterdam, du concours World Press Photo. En attendant les résultats, allez voir les gagnants de l'an dernier. Superbe!

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In an article to be published in the Science journal, Dr. Woo Suk Hwang and Dr. Shin Yong Moon of Seoul National University announce their success in creating human embryos through cloning and extracted embryonic stem cells.

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In an article to be published in the Science journal, Dr. Woo Suk Hwang and Dr. Shin Yong Moon of Seoul National University announce their success in creating human embryos through cloning and extracted embryonic stem cells.

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President and candidate George W. Bush sent a web video to 6 million campaign supporters.

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Known for its high-profile actions, usually with the help of celebrities such as Pamela Anderson, Alicia Silverstone or Alec Bladwin, PETA has struck once again.

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Some countries are definitely more fortunate than others. Take the case of Switzerland for example, known for its chocolate, watches, Red Cross... and bank accounts.

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Some countries are definitely more fortunate than others. Take the case of Switzerland for example, known for its chocolate, watches, Red Cross... and bank accounts.

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It’s been all over the news wires: Americans are not just overweight, they’re obese. A study, conducted by RTI International and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), shows that each state spends, on average, 1/20th of it’s medical costs on obesity related problems.

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