(SomaliNet) Nigeria's Academic Associated Peaceworks lost two of its employees to an attack from armed men. Two others were wounded during the attack on the organization's offices in Nigeria's Port Harcourt city in southern Nigeria. According to Judith Asuni, the aid of the organization, the organization aims at promoting peace in Nigeria and Ghana. "We have been working to try to get people to give up violence in the delta. This incident is a stark reminder of the alternative," Asuni lamented. Eye witnesses say that the attack was probably targeted at a particular fellow and that the others were injured by stray bullets. One of the dead is a fellow militant.
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(SomaliNet) Madagascar's authorities are seeking looking for seven Madagascan army officers suspected of trying to take over Madagascar's government, a Madagascan State prosecutor has said. "Wanted posters were released on Sunday against seven officers and sub-officers who were with him (General Fidy)," Lala Andrianasolo, Madagascar's state prosecutor at Madagascar's Antananarivo republic court said. The eight are being "suspected of an attack on state security, mutiny, hostage-taking and the murder of a soldier", she added. It is alleged that the seven were with General Fidy on Friday and Saturday.
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RIYADH A presenter from King Saud University at an international medical seminar at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center caused a stir yesterday when he insisted that all women including medical and media professionals leave the room before he would enter the room to give his presentation. Initially some women expressed consternation at the request, but later relented and left the room so the doctor and orthodox man could give his presentation about Islam and the ethics of organ donation and end-of-life issues.
Prior to the presentation by Dr. Yousef Al-Ahmed, the audience was informed that the doctor would not be in the same room with women when he spoke about medical ethics. We had to ask the female medical staff to leave the hall based on the sheikhs request, said a member of the organizing committee who preferred to remain anonymous.
This is ridiculous, said one woman, a medical professional and Muslim. In the Grand Mosque in Makkah men and women pray together. Why are we being asked to leave? This guy knows a hospital is a mixed place. He should have realized that before he came, she said. I am being put in a very embarrassing situation.
A Saudi woman who specializes in neuroscience said the doctor had no right to ask women to leave.We had every right to be there, she said on condition of anonymity. We were attending a scientific medical symposium. If he did not want to attend the symposium because it was mixed with men and women medical experts doing their job, that is his problem, not ours.
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He was only protecting the wimmen like any good Muslim man is supposed to do. Plus, there's no reason for them to worry their pretty little heads with all this scientific stuff, anyhow.
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Do they allow organ transplants between men and women?
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My 2 cents on the latent honosexuality. Men and women can not associate in public, can not hold hands, can not talk. It's OK for ment to associate in public, touch each other, kiss each other so the hormones and urges gotta go somewhere. Although homosexuality is condemned by Islam there is no other recource for men than to associate with other men. When you have a society as sexually derainged as this violence is the natural outcome. Boys are not allowed to associate with girls and the normal attractions and social skills between the two sexes do not mature. Men want to be in the company of other men because they don't no how to interact with women.
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I'll add my 2 cents to Deacon's (we're up to 4 cents now!) --
In many Arab Muslim lands men can't get married until they can demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the combined parents, that they can support a wife. Since the official unemployment rate in most Arab countries runs 20 to 50%, it means that young Arab boys aren't going to satisfy their lusts by taking a wife, making a couple of kids and settling down in a job and a home.
Those urges have to go somewhere, as DB said, and from what I read, a fair bit of homosexuality in these countries is due to frustration.
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Deacon,
You nailed it. It's well known that both Saoodis and Paks keep a stable of young lads on the string. But, think of this, if these bastards actually liked females, their brood sows would be producing 15-20 offspring each instead of 4-6. So maybe we're lucky that they're homos at heart.
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I ment to say men don't know how to interact with women except as sexual objects. women are not "people", they are possesions. If one isn't wealthy enough to "own" a woman what's left? Sexual frustration is exhibited in violent behavior. Islam decrees the punishment for homosexuality is death so there is one hell of a conflict with individuals who want sexual release but their "religion" will kill them if they engage in homosexual activity. Hence the claim that an un-accompanied or less than fully covered-from-head-to-toe female is asking to be raped. It's the woman's fault for inticing the man. Blame onyone but yourself is the Islamic tenant.
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Two Pakistani nationals in Kuwait and one in Saudi Arabia convicted for drug offences were executed by the respective countries, officials said. Taj Mohammad Abdulghani and Abdulrahim Nader Shah were convicted of smuggling a large quantity of drugs into Kuwait, while Ijaz Khan was convicted of receiving smuggled hashish in Saudi Arabia.
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Nasty drugs are for export to infidel Western countries ONLY!
Two persons were killed as they were run over by a jeep of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) that came under attacks of armed BNP men at Badamtali intersection of Patiya upazila yesterday. The BNP men attacked the LDP motorcade and people preventing them from joining an LDP rally on the Patiya Upazila Parishad premises. The attack left over 20 people injured, three of them critically.
The dead were identified as Nesar Ahmed and Shah Alam. Witnesses said the two were knocked by a jeep of the LDP motorcade while trying to escape the attackers during the chase and counter-chase and died on the way to Chittagong Medical College and Hospital (CMCH). Local LDP leader Mohammad Ali, also former joint organising secretary of Patiya BNP, said Nesar and Alam left the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and joined the LDP recently. The BNP, however, claimed that they are Patiya JCD leaders.
Addressing the rally, LDP Executive President Col (retd) Oli Ahmed later announced to file a case against former BNP lawmaker Gazi Shahjahan Jewel and JCD leader Rezaul Karim Nesar for the attacks and killing. Oli and LDP central and local leaders were holding a meeting in Chittagong to decide on programmes to protest the incident as of filing of this report last evening.
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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Nicaraguan President-elect Daniel Ortega, making his first official trip outside the country, promised on Tuesday to work toward a unified Central America but also said his country needs new trade partnerships beyond its neighbors and the United States.
For example, with Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, all the big trading guys ...
After a meeting with Guatemalan President Oscar Berger, Ortega told a news conference, "If we don't unite, we'll sink. We have to work toward a union of the Americas, of Central America with the Caribbean and South America," he said. "Meanwhile, let's build the unity of Central America."
"And I'm available to run it."
The trip is his first abroad since being elected as president on Nov. 5. Political analysts have suggested that by making such a visit before heading to either the U.S. or Venezuela, he could distance himself from a dispute between the two countries. The U.S. openly opposed Ortega and Venezuela strongly supported him as a presidential candidate.
Central American leaders have been holding talks aimed at integrating the region by opening borders from Nicaragua to Guatemala. Both countries have also signed a new free-trade pact with the United States.
Ortega said Nicaragua should also embrace other possible trade partners, such as the Mercosur trade bloc, which currently includes Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, and the left-leaning Bolivarian pact between Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia.
Under the Sandinista leader's rule from 1985-1990, Nicaragua descended into economic chaos under radical economic policies that included property seizures. Ortega has promised that his new administration will respect property rights and the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the United States, as well as negotiating for a new economic package with the International Monetary Fund.
And you can trust an ex-commie. Honest.
During his Guatemalan visit, Ortega also sharply criticized the United States' plans to extend a wall along the border with Mexico, saying the U.S. "should work for the unity of the Americas, but taking into account the asymmetries between the countries."
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It's not a bad idea. Perhaps they should start with dismantling their militaries like Costa Rica did. Nicaragua should start first since they have the bloodiest record and after all it's Ortega's idea.
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I don't know who was in charge there when I got busted by the sandinistas in January 1980 for "spying" eg anchoring too close to the beach in bad weather, but they had seized most private property by then and "solved" their unemployment problem by conscripting all males into the army. The soldiers took the place of traffic signals (4 to each intersection) as there was no electricity and no businesses were open. They released us upon learning we were merely storm tossed sailors.
The motto for France 24, President Chiracs riposte to the American-British domination of world television news, was to be: Everything you are not supposed to know. It now has been replaced with Beyond the News, but the message remains the same.
Frances 24-hour service, which starts broadcasting on December 6, will offer an alternative to a global news narrative that, in French eyes, is largely shaped by Americas CNN and BBC World.
To reach the maximum audience in a field that was joined last week by al-Jazeera English, France has put aside its linguistic qualms. The French Eye on World News, as it calls itself, will broadcast via satellite and the internet in English as well as French and, soon, Arabic.
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Seems like the country has some sort of inferiority complex. Didn't they want to put up an alternative to the GPS system just so they could say they had their own? And make it twice (or maybe 20 times) as hard to shut it down in the event of an attack?
KATHMANDU: Nepals multi-party government and Maoist rebels signed a landmark peace accord on Tuesday that declared a formal end to a decade-old civil war that has killed more than 13,000 people. Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and Maoist rebel leader Prachanda signed the deal, which comes seven months after King Gyanendra surrendered power to political parties following weeks of often violent street protests.
The accord puts an end to the long conflict, Nepals interior minister and chief government negotiator Krishna Prasad Sitaula said after reading the text of the agreement.
The deal paves the way for the insurgents to be separated from their arms and confined to UN-monitored camps in the run-up to elections for an assembly that will draft a new constitution and decide the future of the monarchy. It also clears the way for the insurgents to join an interim government that will oversee the elections, and for the rebels to take seats with elected politicians in an interim parliament.
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The government on Tuesday accused a group of religious scholars who reviewed the Protection of Women Bill prior to its passage through the National Assembly of backtracking from a signed statement that the bill was not against the principles of Islam. I have a signed statement of the ulema, who said that principally there was nothing in the bill against the injunctions of Islam, said Senator Tariq Azeem, minister of state for information, at a seminar organised by the Communicators Foundation to discuss the bill.
Brandishing a copy of the signed statement, Azeem said that the ulema, who discussed the bill for eight days, had concluded that the bill was not un-Islamic. They had proposed some amendments to the bill to eliminate other discriminatory customs against women. He said Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) president, moved another bill in the National Assembly (NA) to include all those recommendations.
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GENEVA - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Tuesday that he will try to help Africa solve its food problems after he retires from the world body at the end of the year.
Farmin B. Hard is outta luck though 'cause Kofi doesn't plan to pull a plow ...
Im not retiring, Im moving on to the next phase of my life and I would want to work with the African governments and others on food security, to encourage them to take agriculture and farm productivity seriously, Annan told journalists.
The EU way, of course ...
We are the only continent that cannot feed itself, we are also the only continent that did not go through the green agricultural revolution: we have the land and we have the skills, he insisted.
Why is that, Kofi? Maybe the Euro capitalists and colonialists, combined with the Euro communists and statists, had something to do with it? Or will you just blame Bush?
Making Africa self-sufficient in food would create jobs and bolster the continents sense of security instead of leaving millions of Africans dependent on United Nations aid, he argued.
But what then would you do with all those Euro apparatchiks who work in the aid programs?
Ill devote a bit of my time to that, offer advisory services if my advice is needed, and probably do some writing, the Ghanaian said.
Plan on a lot of time for writing ...
Annan, 68, is widely rumoured to be considering setting up a foundation.
The better to launder the money ...
The outgoing UN chief told the Swiss newspaper Tribune de Geneve that he would divide his time between a new home in Geneva, Switzerland and Ghanas capital, Accra.
Boy howdy there's a tough one. Geneva versus Accra, hmmm, Geneva; .. Accra. Geneva; .. Accra .......
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"I would want to work with the African governments and others on food security and I hear Robert Mugabe has some excellent ideas on agriculture that should be implemented throughout Africa."
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Maybe he could "help Africa solve its food problems" by telling the EU to stop blocking shipments of genetically modified seeds, which would rather see Africa starve than resort to ucky American technology.
KUWAIT CITY - Arab neighbours Iraq and Kuwait hammered out on Tuesday a key deal that would allow Kuwait to complete the building of a border fence and pay compensation to Iraqi farmers, officials said. We have signed a deal ... after which Kuwait will be able to complete the construction of the security fence, Kuwaits foreign ministry undersecretary Khaled Al Jarallah told reporters after talks with his Iraqi counterpart.
The deal calls for the payment of compensation to Iraqi farmers on the border, said Jarallah, and added that the amount had been deposited with the United Nations.
We have completed the practical requirements for the demarcation of borders, based on UN Security Council Resolution 833 issued in 1993, Iraqs foreign ministry undersecretary Mohammad Al Haj said. The two officials also discussed demarcation of sea borders and production of oil from border oilfields.
The UN resolution demarcated the land border between the two nations and granted Kuwait some territory that had previously been held by Iraq.
Kuwait began the construction of a 200-kilometer (125-mile) metal barrier along its land borders with Iraq in early 2005, but Iraqi protestors near the town of Umm Qasr tore down parts of the fence saying it was being erected on their land.
A fence? Reeeally? Sort of like the one that would along the Rio Grande?
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"...the amount had been deposited with the United Nations." hell say good bye to it because it's good as gone, the theft has already started.
But the brain-farts continue apace...
Levels of an important greenhouse gas have stopped growing, say U.S. scientists.
Methane levels have stayed nearly flat for the past seven years, following a rise during the two previous decades, according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine. The findings suggest methane may no longer be as large a global warming threat as previously thought and provide evidence that methane levels can be controlled.
The research, led by professors Sherwood Rowland and Donald Blake, will be published in Thursday's online edition of Geophysical Research Letters. "If one really tightens emissions, the amount of methane in the atmosphere 10 years from now could be less than it is today. We will gain some ground on global warming if methane is not as large a contributor in the future as it has been in the past century," Rowland, of the department of chemistry and earth system science, said in a news release.
Rowland is the co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize for chemistry for discovering that chlorofluorocarbons in products such as aerosol sprays and coolants were damaging the Earth's protective ozone layer. He and his colleagues believe the slowdown in methane growth may be in part because of leak-preventing repairs to oil and gas lines and storage facilities, which can release methane into the atmosphere.
Other explanations include slower growth or decrease in methane emissions from coal mining, rice paddies and natural gas production.
"If carbon dioxide levels were the same today as they were in 2000, the global warming discussion would leave the front page. But to stabilize this greenhouse gas, we would have to cut way back on emissions," Rowland said. "Methane is not as significant a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide, but its effects are important. The world needs to work hard to reduce emissions of all greenhouse gases."
Methane is the major ingredient in natural gas. It is also a powerful greenhouse gas and helps form ozone, an ingredient in smog. Atmospheric levels of the gas have more than doubled since the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700s. About two-thirds of methane emissions can be traced to human activities such as fossil-fuel extraction. And the data is for the tiniest slice of time in a process in which scores of millenia denote actual trends.
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Paleoclimatologist William Ruddiman has argued (e.g., Scientific American, March 2005) that human influence on the global climate began around 8,000 years ago with the start of forest clearing to provide land for agriculture and 5,000 years ago with the start of Asian rice irrigation. He contends that forest clearing explains the rise in carbon dioxide levels in the current interglacial that started 8,000 years ago, contrasting with the decline in carbon dioxide levels seen in the previous three interglacials. He further contends that the spread of rice irrigation explains the breakdown in the last 5,000 years of the correlation between the Northern Hemisphere solar radiation and global methane levels, which has been maintained over at least the last 11 22,000-year cycles. Ruddiman argues that without these effects, the Earth would be nearly 2 °C cooler and "well on the way" to a new ice age. Wikipedia
I've read elsewhere that the amount of land used for rice cultivation in China has declined sharply, with more intensive cultivation techniques producing higher yields.
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I've been doing my bit, under pressure from my family. Hasn't been easy, but glad it is paying off.
You're welcome, world.
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And people said my diet would have no effect!
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A lot of work has been done on natural gas pipelines and mines over the past decade; not just in the US but overseas also (mostly because methane leaks are safety hazards).
IMO, In 2001, President Bush should have said that the US is working on a methane control strategy first (before the CO2 strategy).
It would have confused the enviros and allowed some 'changing the conversation'.
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We're producing and burning lots of methane so it can't get loose and cause global warming. (Of course when we burn it we end up with CO2, but 1) the plants love it, and 2) it is a much weaker greenhouse gas. Yay, big oil companies.)
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Silent Spring, mutually-assured destruction, global cooling, running out of fossil fuel, mountains of garbage, snail darter endangerment, nuclear winter, clearing of rain forests, destruction of wetlands, old forest lumbering, northern spotted owl endangerment, ozone depletion, frog mutations, global warming... Oooohkay, time to move on to the next environmental gloom and doom.
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Ship,
Marry Mary-Ann and keep Ginger on the side - problem solved bro'.
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Marry Mary-Ann and keep Ginger on the side - problem solved bro'
"But, that couldn't work! Ginger's got the money!"
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"In regards to methane levels no longer rising, that can't possibly be true. I've got a dozen scientists saying that greenhouse emissions are out of control and we're all going to die! Just look at how it's all outlined in my movie!"
A British woman faces the firing squad after breaking down under questioning in a Vietnamese court yesterday and confessing to her role in a multimillion-pound heroin smuggling ring. As her daughters and sisters watched, Tran Thi Hien, a 47-year old British citizen of Vietnamese origin, first denied but finally admitted being a member of a drug trafficking ring that bought and distributed more than 50 kilograms of heroin across Vietnam and South-East Asia.
Two of Hiens daughters, who travelled from London to attend their mothers trial, expressed outrage at the charges and condemned the harsh conditions under which she has been held. Unless the Vietnamese judges are uncharacteristically lenient, Ms Hien will be sentenced to death by firing squad the recommended sentence for smuggling more than 600g of heroin.
Hien appeared in the Quang Binh provincial court in the sleepy seaside town of Hong Doi after two and a half years in custody, during which she has spent just ten minutes with a member of her British family. The lawyer who represented her had only four days to prepare her case. Her original lawyer, who had been working on her defence for a year, was prevented from attending the trial by secret police who incarcerated her in her home.
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Oh goody. Out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly four in 10 babies born last year, government health officials said Tuesday. While out-of-wedlock births have long been associated with teen mothers, the teen birth rate actually dropped last year to the lowest level on record. Instead, births among unwed mothers rose most dramatically among women in their 20s.
The overall rise reflects the burgeoning number of people who are putting off marriage or living together without getting married.
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"The overall rise reflects the burgeoning number of people who are putting off marriage or living together without getting married." = non government or religiously recognized marriage. BFD
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The ones that kill me are the ladies who think that marriage is a bit too much of a commitment, but having some guy's kid isn't. WTF??
Got into a heated argument (heated on her side, not mine) with an ex-friend when I told her she was flat out wrong with that idea. She didn't like it much when I pointed out that after her divorce, once everything was settled, she didn't have to ever talk to her ex again if she didn't want to because there were no kids. However....she would probably always have to keep up contact with her boyfriend/baby daddy, because of the child and the child's needs for the rest of the child's life (everything from possible child support if they should break up to information on his family medical history, and in the future, where the little dumpling would spend Thanksgiving/Christmas and who would sit where if/when the kid got married....and on and on....), even if his parental rights were terminated.
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How bout this? Restrict govt. subsidies and eliminate mandatory child support for all children born out of wedlock. I dunno maybe that Free milk and the cow analogy works both ways.
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The game changed when the DNA was used to blackmail the father for life. That shit should only work for couples with disputes, not to capture otherwise free men.
If you don't want to keep him, don't boink him.
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Sorry, wxjames, but if you don't want to support any little oopsies, use a condom or get a vasectomy. Or practice discretion in your choice of, um, playdates.
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waxjames, if you don't want progeny, doin 't boink or get a vasectomy. Otherwise, shut the fuck up.
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My wife and I are playing "good samaritan" to an unwed mother and her child at the moment, trying to help her get back on her feet after being evicted from her apartment by her roommate and her roommate's new boyfriend. She is not the world's greatest mother, to put it mildly. The kid's needs always come second to her own. We're doing our best to ensure the kid doesn't grow up with a lot of emotional problems, but it's not easy.
Among my daughter's circle of friends eleven have children, and only one of them is married. Half of them aren't even sure who the father is. These kids think, "no big deal", but they've just shot themselves in the foot, career-wise, financial independence wise, and several other ways. It's not scientific or anything, but of the 11 young women, only one grew up in a household with two parents. Eight of the 11 didn't finish high school. Only one gave her child up for adoption, and she's pregnant again. I can't think of one of them that has any kind of religious upbringing. Most of these young girls and their children are on public assistance of one kind or another (mostly WIC and Medicaid for the baby). The generation their children belong to will have major issues when they reach maturity, if not before.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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(SomaliNet) Madagascar's authorities are seeking looking for seven Madagascan army officers suspected of trying to take over Madagascar's government, a Madagascan State prosecutor has said. "Wanted posters were released on Sunday against seven officers and sub-officers who were with him (General Fidy)," Lala Andrianasolo, Madagascar's state prosecutor at Madagascar's Antananarivo republic court said. The eight are being "suspected of an attack on state security, mutiny, hostage-taking and the murder of a soldier", she added. It is alleged that the seven were with General Fidy on Friday and Saturday.
RIYADH A presenter from King Saud University at an international medical seminar at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center caused a stir yesterday when he insisted that all women including medical and media professionals leave the room before he would enter the room to give his presentation. Initially some women expressed consternation at the request, but later relented and left the room so the doctor and orthodox man could give his presentation about Islam and the ethics of organ donation and end-of-life issues. 
Two Pakistani nationals in Kuwait and one in Saudi Arabia convicted for drug offences were executed by the respective countries, officials said. Taj Mohammad Abdulghani and Abdulrahim Nader Shah were convicted of smuggling a large quantity of drugs into Kuwait, while Ijaz Khan was convicted of receiving smuggled hashish in Saudi Arabia.
Two persons were killed as they were run over by a jeep of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) that came under attacks of armed BNP men at Badamtali intersection of Patiya upazila yesterday. The BNP men attacked the LDP motorcade and people preventing them from joining an LDP rally on the Patiya Upazila Parishad premises. The attack left over 20 people injured, three of them critically.
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Nicaraguan President-elect Daniel Ortega, making his first official trip outside the country, promised on Tuesday to work toward a unified Central America but also said his country needs new trade partnerships beyond its neighbors and the United States.
The motto for France 24, President Chiracs riposte to the American-British domination of world television news, was to be: Everything you are not supposed to know. It now has been replaced with Beyond the News, but the message remains the same.
GENEVA - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Tuesday that he will try to help Africa solve its food problems after he retires from the world body at the end of the year.
KUWAIT CITY - Arab neighbours Iraq and Kuwait hammered out on Tuesday a key deal that would allow Kuwait to complete the building of a border fence and pay compensation to Iraqi farmers, officials said. We have signed a deal ... after which Kuwait will be able to complete the construction of the security fence, Kuwaits foreign ministry undersecretary Khaled Al Jarallah told reporters after talks with his Iraqi counterpart.
Methane levels have stayed nearly flat for the past seven years, following a rise during the two previous decades, according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine. The findings suggest methane may no longer be as large a global warming threat as previously thought and provide evidence that methane levels can be controlled.
A British woman faces the firing squad after breaking down under questioning in a Vietnamese court yesterday and confessing to her role in a multimillion-pound heroin smuggling ring. As her daughters and sisters watched, Tran Thi Hien, a 47-year old British citizen of Vietnamese origin, first denied but finally admitted being a member of a drug trafficking ring that bought and distributed more than 50 kilograms of heroin across Vietnam and South-East Asia. 
Out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly four in 10 babies born last year, government health officials said Tuesday. While out-of-wedlock births have long been associated with teen mothers, the teen birth rate actually dropped last year to the lowest level on record. Instead, births among unwed mothers rose most dramatically among women in their 20s. 
