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Hamas accepts Egyptian proposal for Gaza cease-fire
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Africa Subsaharan
Medical Group Blames Mugabe for Zimbabwe's Broken Health Care System
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government should be investigated for crimes against humanity for overseeing and ignoring the breakdown of the nation's health care system, U.S.-based Physicians for Human Rights said in a report released Tuesday.
Awright, Bob. You're in big trouble now. You're gonna be investigated. Once they achieve concensus, of course.
"Paging Ms. del Ponte, Ms. Carla del Ponte to the gray courtesy phone ..."
Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sky = blue
Coal = Newcastle

/etc, etc.
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia || 01/14/2009 1:48 Comments || Top||

#2  The surprising thing is that they didn't blame Bush.
Posted by: DMFD || 01/14/2009 19:23 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Hawa Bhaban boys on list of 25-plus
More than 25 bigwigs including some ministers of the last BNP-led four-party alliance government and some Hawa Bhaban people were also allegedly involved in the raging scandal of laundering over $200 million, paid by foreign businesses in kickbacks, sources in the Attorney General's Office said yesterday.
Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
2,000 fresh troops sent to Juarez as violence continues
The Mexican army has sent an estimated 2,000 troops to Juarez as part of a rotation even as the death toll surpassed 35 so far this year.

Two men were killed Tuesday evening, shot multiple times in separate attacks in which nearly 70 rounds were fired.

About 5 p.m., Hector Ramiro Guardado Pereira, 34, was slain in colonia Infonavit Tecnologico, said Chihuahua state police. Investigators counted 40 casings of three calibers.

About 10 minutes later, Agapito Aguirre Leyva, 36, was shot in the 1500 block of Acuario, where 29 casings of three calibers were found, police said.

Tuesday morning, Guillermo Pizarro Marceleño, 35, died at a hospital after being shot inside El Trebol restaurant on Avenida 16 de Septiembre, police said.

Three unidentified men were killed Monday. In one case, a man, who had a gag on his mouth and an electrical cord tied to a wrist and who might have been stabbed, shot and run over by a vehicle, was found at about 9:30 p.m. on Viaducto Diaz Ordaz road west of downtown, police said.

The other two slayings were a man with a plastic bag taped over his head found in a vacant lot in the Parajes del Sur area and a blindfolded man with several stab wounds to his torso found in a ditch in colonia Insurgentes, police said.

Soldiers who arrived in Juarez on Monday are part of a regular rotation of troops sent to different parts of Mexico, the Norte newspaper reported. Last year, more 1,600 people were slain in Juarez.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/14/2009 10:51 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Time to stand-up the 1st Acción rápida Batallion
Posted by: .5MT || 01/14/2009 14:37 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China overtakes Germany as world’s third economy
Posted by: tipper || 01/14/2009 10:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wait till the new numbers are fabricated gathered with the recession. America might have exported a lot of jobs, but it also has exported a lot of unemployment that goes with those jobs when tough times hit.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/14/2009 11:50 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 01/14/2009 19:23 Comments || Top||


Europe
Despite Deal, EU Still Awaits Flow of Russian Gas
Posted by: tipper || 01/14/2009 12:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey, the Russians aren't playing fair.
Posted by: DK70 the Scantily Clad7177 || 01/14/2009 13:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Still wanna run supplies through Russia to Afghan? I think the Indians would suggest against it as well.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/14/2009 16:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Hey Smarnt Diplomacy and Flacid Power, I gotch ya hard line right here.
-Putin

Was wondering about that Baltic Sea pipeline Russian to Germany and if it would solve the problem then realized that the Mussels in Brussels would just work direct with Moscow and wouldn't have to care about anything east of the Germany/Poland border.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/14/2009 16:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Dear EU

We told you so!

-- The US
Posted by: DMFD || 01/14/2009 19:20 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Paglia on Couric: Catfight!
Nice! Could I man be this brutal without being accused of being sexist? No need to answer as we KNOW the answer. She also has some very positive comments on 'Cuda.
"And let me take this opportunity to say that of all the innumerable print and broadcast journalists who have interviewed me in the U.S. and abroad since I arrived on the scene nearly 20 years ago, Katie Couric was definitively the stupidest. As a guest on NBC's "Today" show during my 1992 book tour, I was astounded by Couric's small, humorless, agenda-ridden mind, still registered in that pinched, tinny monotone that makes me rush across the room to change stations whenever her banal mini-editorials blare out at 5 p.m. on the CBS radio network. And of course I would never spoil my dinner by tuning into Couric's TV evening news show. That sallow, wizened, drum-tight, cosmetic mummification look is not an appetite enhancer outside of Manhattan or L.A. There's many a moose in Alaska with greater charm and pizazz."
Posted by: A_Rovian_Desciple || 01/14/2009 13:17 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I nominate Camille for Honorary Rantburgian.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 01/14/2009 15:38 Comments || Top||

#2  That's not a catfight, that's a steam-cleaning!
Posted by: Mike || 01/14/2009 16:13 Comments || Top||

#3  At first glance I thought it read "Coulter". That would draw an audience on PPV.
Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division || 01/14/2009 17:24 Comments || Top||

#4  http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/mluphoup/perkone2.jpg
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/14/2009 20:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Moose, please include an after dinner warning with the link.
Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division || 01/14/2009 21:07 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
India’s Gandhi prepares for April poll
Posted by: tipper || 01/14/2009 10:23 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front Economy
List of TARP Institutions
Interesting list of financial institutions which have received TARP funds, updated January 8th, 2009.
Posted by: badanov || 01/14/2009 06:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How many troubled mortgages have we bought to date?

Rhetorical question, but isn't that how this great smorgasbord got started?
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 01/14/2009 9:54 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2009-01-14
  Hamas accepts Egyptian proposal for Gaza cease-fire
Tue 2009-01-13
  Israelis Push to Edge of Gaza City
Mon 2009-01-12
  Israeli reservists swarm into Gaza
Sun 2009-01-11
  Hamas rejects international observers in Gaza
Sat 2009-01-10
  Israel to continue offensive despite UN resolution
Fri 2009-01-09
  New Year's Missile Strike Killed Top Al-Qaeda Operatives
Thu 2009-01-08
  Katyusha rockets falling in Israel's North on the town of Nahariya
Wed 2009-01-07
  Screech urges Muslims to attack Israeli and Western targets over Gaza op
Tue 2009-01-06
  First major Israel-Hamas fighting in Gaza City
Mon 2009-01-05
  Battles begin in N Gaza; many hamas operatives captured
Sun 2009-01-04
  IDF moves to bisect Gaza
Sat 2009-01-03
  Sri Lankan troops capture Kilinochchi
Fri 2009-01-02
  Girls to marry militants, orders Taliban
Thu 2009-01-01
  Senior Hamas leader killed in IAF air strike in Gaza Strip
Wed 2008-12-31
  Iranian 'students' attack Jordan, UK embassies, Saudi air office; threaten Egypt; burn Benneton store ...


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