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Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris, the man who murdered untold hundreds of thousands of […]
“We’re not ready yet,” shared the party-goer. “We’re not ready for a woman or a black president.”
The statement stunned me. We were in heated conversation about the possibilities of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama as candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2008. The conversation was of mixed political platforms, but the sentiment seemed common.
“How […]
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four car bombs targeting Shi’ites in Baghdad and a town south of the capital killed more than 70 people on Saturday, hours after Saddam Hussein was hanged amid fears of revenge by his Sunni Arab supporters.
In Baghdad, three car bombs exploded in quick succession in the mainly Shi’ite neighborhood […]
WASHINGTON - The government declared Thursday that food from cloned animals is safe to eat.
After more than five years of study, the Food and Drug Administration concluded that cloned livestock is “virtually indistinguishable” from conventional livestock.
FDA believes “that meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat clones is as safe to […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein’s chief lawyer implored world leaders on Thursday to prevent the United States from handing over the ousted leader to Iraqi authorities for execution, saying the former dictator should enjoy protection from his enemies as a “prisoner of war.”
Iraq’s highest court on Tuesday rejected Saddam’s appeal against his conviction and death […]
The Bush administration has decided to propose listing the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, putting the U.S. government on record as saying that global warming could drive one of the world’s most recognizable animals out of existence.
The administration’s proposal — which was described by an Interior Department official who spoke on […]
Iran’s claim to need nuclear power may be genuine, given that it could run out of oil to export as soon as eight years from now, according to an analysis published on Tuesday by the National Academy of Sciences.The study’s author, Roger Stern, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, said investment in Iranian […]
The study found “massive” and “widespread” localised ozone depletion in the heart of Antartica’s ozone hole region, beginning in the late 1970s, but becoming more pronounced in the 1980s and `90s.
The US government scientists who conducted the study said that there was an almost complete absence of ozone in certain atmospheric air […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The deaths of six U.S. soldiers in Iraq pushed the American toll beyond the number of victims in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Separately, at least 36 Iraqis died Tuesday in bombings, officials said, including a coordinated strike that killed 25 in western Baghdad.
The […]
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will start installing 3,000 centrifuges at its Natanz uranium enrichment plant from Sunday as an immediate reaction to the U.N. Security Council resolution, Tehran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said.
“We will start our installation activities at the Natanz facility from Sunday,” he told the Kayhan newspaper.
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