"Why Paris is burning"

Early Returns from Liberia Show Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the Lead
There was no rush to the polls or long lines at most polling stations, when Liberians cast ballots in the country's first presidential run-off election on Tuesday. But reports from various parts of the country said the turnout increased as the day went on, although participation appeared considerably below the 75 percent of the first round on October 11.

Africa Loses Billions Due to Lakes' Degradation
Africa losses billions of dollars in tourist recreational fees, fishing and use of water from its fresh water lakes due to environmental destruction.

UNC details past slavery ties
In the early decades of the University of North Carolina, servants kindled fires in students' rooms and cut wood to fuel stoves. The 216-year-old school, which takes pride in being the nation's oldest public university, is now airing a shameful side of its past -- those servants were slaves.

Why Paris is burning
Why is Paris burning? That's the red-hot question. Newsweek, in its latest edition, showed its ignorance and insensitivity by coming up with an Islamophobic slant: "Will the riots swell the ranks of jihadists in Europe?" The question remains, why is Paris burning?

Rioting Continues in France, Despite Curfews
Violence has flared again in several French cities, despite the imposition of night-time curfews aimed at curbing the looting, burning and other destruction that has taken place for nearly two weeks.

Zimbabwe: U.S. envoy could be expelled
Zimbabwe's government on Wednesday summoned the U.S. ambassador in Harare to warn it would not hesitate to expel him if he was seen as trying to stir unrest by "unjust and baseless" attacks against President Robert Mugabe.

Nigeria lifts ban on Halliburton over missing radioactive substances
Nigeria has lifted a ban on the local subsidiary of US multinational oil services company Halliburton, after the recovery of high-risk radioactive substances stolen from the country, Nigerian newspapers reported Tuesday. Nigeria imposed an indefinite ban on the award of contracts in 2003 to the Halliburton Energy Services Nigerian Ltd. (HESNL) for its negligence leading to the loss and its refusal to "cooperate with government authorities in ensuring the return" of the substances.

Nigeria makes plan to pay Paris Club
Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo has asked lawmakers to approve the payment of $12.4 billion (R83.08 billion) in debts owed to foreign creditors, officials said Wednesday.

Europe faces 'fear of all things foreign'
Watching the French riots with a mixture of trepidation and schadenfreude, Europe's rulers have arrived at two conclusions. One is that the violence is a peculiarly French affair, the product of colour blind republicanism and bungling by an out-of-touch elite. The other is it will not happen here. Both conclusions are questionable.

Calm returns to Ethiopia
Normal life was resuming in Addis Ababa on Wednesday after last week's violent disturbances that claimed over 40 lives in the capital and at least four others in another major city.

Ethiopia opposition heads, editors face treason charges - PM
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Wednesday that opposition leaders and newspaper editors under detention will face treason charges, which carries the death penalty in Ethiopia, for their alleged roles in protests last week in which at 46 people were killed.

Sudan at the head of a global sweep to mop up world's oil resources
A tangle of pipes and metallic towers rises over the shimmering, rock-strewn desert north of the Sudanese capital Khartoum. The gleaming oil refinery is the jewel of Sudan's oil boom, the mid-point of a 900-mile pipeline from the southern oilfields to the Red Sea that is projected to pump 500,000 barrels a day by the end of this year.

The Dynamic Unification of South America vs. U.S. Foreign Policy and Global Corporate Empire

U.S., Britain plot 'regime change' in Iran

US Uses Napalm in Iraq

A history of the Iraq war, told entirely in lies

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