SLeone 'child-smuggler' arrests Aug 7, 2008
The 10-year civil war has left many orphans and great poverty. Three people have been arrested and charged with smuggling 29 children to the United States for adoption, say police in Sierra Leone. (Yahoo News -- Sierra Leone)
Anti-United Nations measure stalls in House vote Aug 7, 2008
CARLOS wrote on February 25, 2007 10:12 AM "Let's go back to the days when men were men, and start the Civil War all over again . . ." LL wrote on February 25, 2007 11:02 AM Hey Mark, so this is all a vast conspiracy by international bankers. Jewish presumably. (Yahoo News -- United Nations)
Canadian frigate to protect ships from pirates Aug 7, 2008
The end of a civil war in the early 1990s, and the clan fighting that followed, contributed to the collapse of Somalia's state structure. Without a national government and with no visible police authority, piracy has become a big problem in the region. (CTV.ca)
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Dandy Dan wrote on Nov 30, 2007 5:42 PM:" It seems that some of the ex/military people feel that only ex/military people should be able to comment on this topic. Quotes like "earned your right to speak" and "put up or shut up". Well I havent served, but I will continue to type my thoughts. Dont like it - dont read it. The citizens are funding the war and have every right to speak. I want the troops back, then I read the idea that I should "pick up a rifle and go replace them" perhaps the armed... (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
Japan activist posts finger to PM Aug 7, 2008
YASUKUNI SHRINE Built in 1869 to honour victims of the Boshin Civil War Now venerates the souls of 2. 5m of Japan's war dead Those enshrined include 14 Class A war criminals. (Yahoo News -- Japan)
Shiite Militias Move Into Oil-Rich Kirkuk, Even as Kurds Dig In Aug 7, 2008
KIRKUK, Iraq -- Hundreds of Shiite Muslim militiamen have deployed in recent weeks to this restive city -- widely considered the most likely flash point for an Iraqi civil war -- vowing to fight any attempt to shift control over Kirkuk to the Kurdish-governed north, according to U.S. commanders and diplomats, local police and politicians. Until recently, the presence of the militias here was minimal. (Yahoo News -- Kurdish Issues)
Summer Classes For The Academy For Lifelong Learning Aug 7, 2008
The tour will cover why the cemetery was established in this location, information the people buried there, and the Civil War veterans project. August 13 - Tour of OSU(OSU - Benton Hall)Larry Landis, OSU Archivist, will lead a tour of the OSU Campus to talk about several of OSU s historic buildings of the core campus area and the architects that designed them. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Letters to the Editor (Published July 28) Aug 7, 2008
wilvus wrote on Jul 28, 2008 9:50 AM:" As a low information Philistine who under values intellectual content I would advise that.... The Fourteenth Amendment was written in a reconstructive post Civil war era and first intended to secure rights for former slaves and is also obsolete. What the authors could not foresee was waves of illegal aliens sneaking across the border and having children to ensure that their children would be U.S. by right of the soil birthrights. That amendment needs to be... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Lebanese leader vows no surrender to violence Aug 7, 2008
Beirut's international airport remained closed as Hizbullah supporters continued to block its main supply road, while hundreds of foreigners, fearing a descent into civil war, fled via land routes to Syria. Army orders are to arrest gunmen, take over armed positions and seize weapons depots, and troops are beginning to establish a presence in Tripoli. (Yahoo News -- Lebanon)
New Chechen president takes oath Aug 7, 2008
Some Russians argue that, in setting Chechens against fellow Chechens, Moscow has gained short-term peace but opened the way to an eventual, inevitable civil war, in the long-term. Others question Mr Kadyrov's loyalty to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow - pointing to his dalliances with Sharia law, as well as his pledges to defend ethnic Chechens, who often experience racial discrimination, wherever they may be in other parts of Russia. (Yahoo News -- Chechnya Conflict)
Young students try out classes at WSU’s College for Kids program Aug 7, 2008
I m a Civil War freak. They did a lot of balls back then. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Liberian President Backs Bid To Move Taylor Trial to Hague Aug 7, 2008
The U.N.-backed special court in Sierra Leone, where Taylor faces an 11-count indictment for his role in that country's civil war, requested that the trial be conducted on the premises of the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands. The Sierra Leone court would retain jurisdiction over the case. (Yahoo News -- Hague War Crimes Tribunal)
1 comment Aug 7, 2008
Except trouble brews in Korea, China's civil war continues, the Soviet Union imprisons Eastern Europe and the triumph of World War II -- dancing in Times Square on V-E Day -- slouches toward the Cold War and its thermonuclear brink. A soldier and scholar like Gen. David Petraeus, commander of Multi-National Force-Iraq, knows history is never over, but judgments must be made. (Human Events Online)
Sudan president defiant in Darfur Aug 7, 2008
Fighting in an oil-rich area on the border of southern Sudan has recently threatened to derail a 2005 peace accord that ended 21 years of civil war - a separate conflict to that in Darfur. "The Sudanese government should be allowed to implement the accord signed with the South Sudan government and to negotiate with the fighting forces in Darfur," Mr Kiir said. (Yahoo News -- Sudan)
State doles out $3.1M in heritage tourism grants Aug 7, 2008
They are follows: Anacostia Trails in Prince George's Co.; Four River in Anne Arundel Co.; Baltimore; Canal Place in Allegany Co.; Heart of Chesapeake Country in Dorchester Co.; Heart of Civil War in Carroll, Frederick and Washington counties; Lower Eastern Shore; Lower Susquehanna; Montgomery Co.; Southern Maryland; Stories of the Chesapeake; and Multi-Heritage. Baltimore received $705,266, with $100,000 going toward the rehabilitation of the Dashiell Properties in Fells Point and $80,000 going... (Baltimore Business Journal, MD)
Africa's Mountain Gorillas Rebound, Says New Census Aug 7, 2008
Starting in 1990, civil war in Rwanda, and later the DRC, rendered the situation too dangerous for a full survey. "There are not many great success stories in conservation today this is tremendously gratifying," said Amy Vedder, former Virunga gorilla researcher and vice president of the Living Landscapes Program at the New York City-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). (Yahoo News -- Pan-Africa)
A look back at Tompkins Square Park Aug 7, 2008
From the civil war in Liberia to the misery of sex workers in Bangladesh, he creates pictorial narratives of the devastation that unfolds when military or economic forces collide with ordinary human lives. But his new book, "Tompkins Square Park" (powerHouse Books), returns to his early days in New York, when he was still adjusting to a new home and a new avocation - photography - after giving up a job at an advertising agency in Osaka. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Plan may turn GAR Hall into vets housing Aug 7, 2008
The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War sold the building to the city in 1960 for $4,800 ... But members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War spoke up, saying they would oppose its sale. (Beverly Citizen, MA)
Indicted Sudanese President Seeks Help From Rivals Aug 7, 2008
Text Size: (AP) Rivals of Sudan's president are pressing him to make concessions at home and abroad in a bid to ward off international charges he ordered genocide in Darfur, a case they fear could wreck peace efforts and even plunge the country into civil war. Many Sudanese worry a decision by the International Criminal Court to take the dramatic step of issuing an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir could prompt a government backlash that would escalate violence in the western Darfur region and... (CBS News -- World)
Democracy -- dramatic and humble Aug 7, 2008
We listened to heartrending stories of lives lost and villages destroyed during El Salvador s civil war, and we witnessed the daily work of a group now trying to make community decisions in a fair and inclusive way ... Teosinte was decimated during El Salvador s civil war, which lasted from 1980 to 1992. (Arlington Advocate, MA)
Taiwan 'tests new cruise missile' Aug 7, 2008
Ruled by separate governments since end of Chinese civil war in 1949 China considers the island part of its territory China has offered a "one country, two systems" solution, like Hong Kong Most people in Taiwan support status quo. The Taiwanese defence ministry, which says China has hundreds of missiles pointed at the island, declined to comment on the report. (Yahoo News -- Taiwan)
Taiwan loses Costa Rica's support Aug 7, 2008
Taiwan and China have been governed separately since the end of a civil war in 1949, and both still compete for diplomatic recognition. Taiwan's foreign minister has offered to resign over the Costa Rican move. (Yahoo News -- Taiwan)
Algiers Attacks Show Maturing of Al-Qaeda Unit Aug 7, 2008
The explosions were the first suicide attacks in Algeria since the 1990s, when the country was mired in civil war, and the worst violence in the capital in more than a decade. In September, bombers targeted a convoy carrying President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, missing him but killing 22. (Yahoo News -- Algeria)
In Algeria, Twin Bombs Kill at Least 52 Aug 7, 2008
Experts and local officials predicted that the final casualty count from the two explosions would rank them as the deadliest attack in the capital, , since the country descended into civil war in the 1990s, and perhaps the worst since Algeria won independence from in 1962 ... It was the most lethal attack in Algiers in a decade and stoked worries of a return to the civil war that claimed an estimated 200,000 lives across the country in the 1990s. (Yahoo News -- Algeria)
Algerian suicide bomb kills four Aug 7, 2008
The group has its roots in the bitter Algerian civil war of the 1990s. Besides the 11 December bombing of UN offices, it said it carried out attacks that killed more than 50 people in early September, and blasts that killed at least 23 people in the capital in April. (Yahoo News -- Algeria)
Nix resigns tourism post; Town has now lost two high-profile officials to resignation in last five weeks Aug 7, 2008
"We've also worked on regional programs that include High Bridge State Park and Trail System, Regional Passport Program, Virginia's Retreat, Civil War Trails and the Regional Fishing Trail Program," she said. Nix said she considers herself "honored" to have played a role in the Department of Tourism's rise to prominence. (Appomattox Times Virginian, VA)
Town's proposed welcome signs being debated; critics allege "Where Our Nation Reunited" took place on county land and not town land Aug 7, 2008
"If you were to accurately state what happened in Appomattox, the statement would be "where General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia," Nix wrote. "That action led to other surrenders, and eventually to the end of the Civil War, which began a healing of our nations darkest era. "She continued that "Where our Nation Reunited" is simply a promotional slogan that derived from historic events.The discussion on the town welcome signs will continue at the Town's next regular... (Appomattox Times Virginian, VA)
Nepalese army begins arms storage Aug 7, 2008
The process is a key part of a peace deal last year that brought an end to Nepal's decade-long civil war. Under the deal, the army is required to lock up the same number of weapons as the former guerrillas have done. (Yahoo News -- Nepal)
Is a Powerful China Good for the U.S.? Aug 7, 2008
Angola, for example, is one of the fastest growing oil producers in the world, but remains a strikingly poor country, still struggling to recover from a 30-year civil war that left more than 1 million people dead before the shooting finally stopped in 2002. "By the end of the civil war, Angola was just an absolute disaster," said Alec Russell, Johannesburg bureau chief of the Financial Times. (ABC News)
A taste of China Aug 7, 2008
General Tso, aka Tso Tsung-t'ang or Zuo Zongtang, was a ruthless 19th-century general from Hunan who helped quash the Taiping rebellion, a civil war in which 20 million people lost their lives, Lee said. And chances are, he never ate the dish that made him famous with Americans. (Florida Times-Union)
Cooks Mills church anniversary turns into town-wide celebration Aug 6, 2008
The first services shifted among cabins of several church members before a church was built after the Civil War. The current structure dates back to 1896. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Lucky escape for Morgan Freeman as car flips Aug 6, 2008
In the moving 1989 drama, Glory, Freeman played a soldier in the first all-black volunteer company to fight for the North in the US Civil War. He starred alongside Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and with Brad Pitt in the crime thriller, Seven (1995). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Mitsubishi Evo Is Obsessive's Dream, Commuter's Nightmare: Jason H. Harper Aug 6, 2008
Civil War re-enactments perhaps, ``Seinfeld'' episodes, scrapbooking. When you discourse on that interest, do friends flee. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Confederate belongs in the history books (8/3) Aug 6, 2008
This is not about the Civil War or who writes the history books or whether blacks fought for the South or your feelings about Michelle Obama or even Black History Month ... Others argued Civil War history and said blacks fought for the South ... This is not about the Civil War or who writes the history books or whether blacks fought for the South or your feelings about Michelle Obama or even Black History Month. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Buffalo Soldiers honor the warriors aboard Flight 93 Aug 6, 2008
Thomas encouraged people to learn more about the Buffalo Soldiers, a group of former slaves, freeman and black Civil War soldiers who served America during peacetime. We love our country, he told the crowd. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Sudan: Cattle Raids and Clashes Still Plague Jonglei Aug 6, 2008
Forced by civil war to flee her village in Southern Sudan, Rebeka James Galwak found her way to the northern capital of Khartoum and lived there until the conflict formally ended. With a peace agreement signed in Nairobi in January 2005, Galwak thought her Nuer village in Jonglei state would be safe enough for her to return but within a year of returning, she said, fighters from the Murle community attacked her home. (allAfrica.com)
Guatemala rights scientist honoured Aug 6, 2008
Since 1992, the Foundation has been investigating human rights abuses committed during Guatemala's 36-year civil war, particularly the 18-month period in the early 1980s when General Efrain Rios Montt pursued what has been described as a "scorched earth policy" ... Altogether, it is estimated about 200,000 people were killed or "disappeared", making the civil war one of Latin America's bloodiest. (Yahoo News -- Guatemala)
Delta trauma Aug 6, 2008
The international aid agency, founded by Bernard Kouchner - now French foreign minister- after his experiences as a Red Cross doctor during the Nigerian civil war, has been running a clinic here since 2005. It provides free healthcare to anyone who comes, and its wards are often occupied by wounded police officers and gang members at the same time. (BBC News -- Health)
Ivory Coast First Lady Leads Death Squad, Report Alleges Aug 6, 2008
The U.N. Security Council established a commission of inquiry last summer to investigate human rights abuses by both sides during the country's civil war. The contents of the commission's 100-page report, which omits the names of the accused, were first leaked to the Ivory Coast press last month. (Yahoo News -- Ivory Coast)
Region blamed for Ivorian horror Aug 6, 2008
Liberation says the UN report documents a catalogue of human rights abuses and violence over more than two years of civil war. The newspaper says that French and UN peacekeepers filmed many of the abuses, and evidence could later be used in war crimes prosecutions. (Yahoo News -- Ivory Coast)
Mbeki seeks to push Ivorian peace Aug 6, 2008
Former rebels in Ivory Coast have warned that a row over a controversial nationality law could rekindle the country's civil war ... South African President Thabo Mbeki met Mr Gbagbo on Tuesday in a further effort to end the civil war. (Yahoo News -- Ivory Coast)
Ivorian abuse 'rife', says report Aug 6, 2008
Liberation says the unpublished report accuses both sides in the Ivorian civil war of violations of human rights ... Liberation says the UN report documents a catalogue of human rights abuses and violence over more than two years of civil war. (Yahoo News -- Ivory Coast)
City in the running Museum of the Confederacy executive director looks at Fredericksburg's old courthouse on Prince Anne Street as a possible museum site. Aug 6, 2008
Famous Civil War artifacts like the original painting of the last meeting between generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee may find a home in Fredericksburg instead of Spotsylvania County ... The Civil War Preservation Trust bought the farm in 2006. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Police evict Tamils from Colombo Aug 6, 2008
Police said that the move was necessary amid fears of renewed civil war. Bad example. (Yahoo News -- Sri Lanka)
LETTERS: NCT, Aug. 5, 2008 Aug 6, 2008
"Associated Press CLINTON, Iowa Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is calling for the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. combat brigades from Iraq, with the pullout being completed by the end of next year."Let me be clear: There is no military solution in Iraq and there never was," Obama said in excerpts of the speech provided to The Associated Press."The best way to protect our security and to pressure Iraq's leaders to resolve their civil war is to immediately begin to remove our... (North County Times)
Israel receives 'last Ethiopians' Aug 6, 2008
The last mass immigration was in 1991, when Israel organised a dramatic airlift of 15,000 people who had fled fighting at the end of Ethiopia's civil war. Correspondents say Ethiopian immigrants remain one of the poorest sections of Israeli society. (BBC News -- Africa)
Lebanese cabinet approves agenda Aug 6, 2008
An agreement to form a national unity government was reached in May following a long period of political paralysis and the worst sectarian violence in Lebanon since the end of the civil war in 1990. The Western-backed parliamentary majority has 16 seats in the new cabinet, while former opposition groups supported by Syria and Iran, and led by Hezbollah, have enough to veto major decisions. (BBC News -- Africa)
Editor's Mailbag (July 31) Aug 6, 2008
A Proud Student wrote on Jul 31, 2008 10:33 PM:" Barefoot: No disrespect but it is our jobs as people to live by morals, not by laws. Government has taken a huge fatal step into forcing us to do what only a few want. This is America land of the free. True Kathleen said "We the people are sick of it", and she can't speak for everyone but really I am sorry but the majority of people would agree with her. People hate strong government most would love just to live their lives pleasing to themselves... (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Heartland class to mark Lincoln's time in Central Illinois Aug 6, 2008
Lincolns frontier experience in New Salem and Americas pivotal Civil War years wont be ignored. But Rager who sits on the McLean County Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission aims to introduce his students to Lincolns time in McLean County, as well. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn On The New Russia Aug 6, 2008
You know that during the American Civil War, Russia supported Lincoln and the North [in contrast to Britain and France, which supported the Confederacy. Then, we were effectively allies in the First World War. (Forbes)
Liberia's Taylor trial adjourned Aug 6, 2008
Mr Taylor has been indicted on 11 charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and violations of international humanitarian law over his alleged role in the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone ... Mr Taylor started Liberia's civil war in 1989 and became one of a number of warlords competing for control in the West African country. (Yahoo News -- Liberia)
Taylor trial delayed until 2008 Aug 6, 2008
Mr Taylor is accused of responsibility for the actions of rebels during the 1991-2001 civil war in Sierra Leone. That includes, among other crimes, unlawful killings, sexual slavery, use of child soldiers and looting. (Yahoo News -- Liberia)
Liberia discovers 'ghost' workers Aug 6, 2008
Liberia, under the helm of Africa's first woman president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, is in the process of re-building following its 14-year civil war. Bookmark with. (Yahoo News -- Liberia)
Border, Fence and Mucho Dinero Aug 6, 2008
EXPECT a CIVIL WAR: expect bankruptcy and it will make the l930's of 60 MILLION citizens look like a picnic. How did we come to arrive at a point where we cannot even learn of the TREASON from within: the USA Giveaway. (Yahoo News -- Immigration)
After long decline, state's welfare rolls surge Aug 6, 2008
Dahabo Hassan was pregnant with her fifth child when her husband was hacked to death in their home as she watched during Somalia's brutal civil war. Hassan spent the next five years in a dusty refugee camp in Kenya, waiting for permission to enter the United States. (Yahoo News -- Welfare Reform)
Is the cannon a symbol of rivalry? Aug 6, 2008
The former cannon was a relic from the Civil War that was retired in 1902 ... The U.S. Army shipped the 1942 cannon to Knoxville to replace the Civil War relic ... The Civil War cannon in Knoxville may not have faced Pella. (Knoxville Journal Express, IA)
A month of attacks, then quick progress Aug 6, 2008
It's Lazaro Sumbeiywo, a retired Kenyan general, and Ambassador Bethuel Kiplagat, a Kenyan career diplomat, both of whom helped mediate an end to Sudan's 20-year civil war. "You are not leaving," General Sumbeiywo tells Mkapa. (Christian Science Monitor)
Agents 2nd trial wont move to Phoenix Aug 6, 2008
First, Isabel Garcia, the Pima County legal defender, appeared on a Tucson television station and in the context of the Corbett case, equated the treatment of illegal entrants to the maltreatment of slaves freed after the Civil War. Also, a prosecutor told the media that new information regarding prior incidents would be introduced in Corbett s retrial that would show the defendant has a pattern of violent acts. (Douglas Daily Dispatch, AZ)
Olympic ideal stumbles over Cheek Aug 6, 2008
" Listening to them Wednesday, at a press conference for the USOC's leadership group, there was a moment when these ideals were seductive, when it was tempting to embrace the idea of setting aside all the political issues swirling around this supposedly apolitical event and just allowing the Games be, well, games. But then you recall the Chinese government's ham-fisted move in revoking Joey Cheek's visa two days before the Opening Ceremony, and that moment of idealism disappears like a distant... (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Post a comment » Aug 6, 2008
Dandy Dan wrote on Nov 30, 2007 5:42 PM:" It seems that some of the ex/military people feel that only ex/military people should be able to comment on this topic. Quotes like "earned your right to speak" and "put up or shut up". Well I havent served, but I will continue to type my thoughts. Dont like it - dont read it. The citizens are funding the war and have every right to speak. I want the troops back, then I read the idea that I should "pick up a rifle and go replace them" perhaps the armed... (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
Summer Classes For The Academy For Lifelong Learning Aug 6, 2008
The tour will cover why the cemetery was established in this location, information the people buried there, and the Civil War veterans project. August 13 - Tour of OSU(OSU - Benton Hall)Larry Landis, OSU Archivist, will lead a tour of the OSU Campus to talk about several of OSU s historic buildings of the core campus area and the architects that designed them. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Another Zim in Angola? Aug 6, 2008
Angola's opposition leader claimed on Tuesday the government would resort to violence and intimidation ahead of legislative elections next month, the country's first since the end of a 27-year civil war ... The 5 September polls are the first since the country's civil war ended in 2002, and official campaiging for the election began on Tuesday. (iAfrica.com)
Young students try out classes at WSU’s College for Kids program Aug 6, 2008
I m a Civil War freak. They did a lot of balls back then. (Winona Daily News, MN)
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He had memories of his widowed mother burying his father s Czarist decorations during the civil war of 1930. He studied mathematics at Rostov State University while taking correspondence courses from the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature, and History. (Human Events Online)
Gauging Obama's Energy Policy Aug 6, 2008
Taxing Oil and the People Who Use It - HUMAN EVENTS. Barack Obama recently announced that if elected President, he would implement a windfall profits tax on oil companies to force them to contribute a reasonable share of their profits to American families burdened by high energy costs. (Human Events Online)
