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100 million more children suffering due to financial crisis Posted: 01 Apr 2009 12:07 AM PDT Rosie Shannon said that the fallout on the world`s poorest children was really attributed to the rise in food prices. The World Food Programme has already warned that about 400,000 children could die because of food shortages. more... | PDA  |
Iraq uses pilotless aircraft for border control Posted: 31 Mar 2009 07:07 PM PDT The pilotless aircraft, started its missions two weeks ago, would police all Iraq`s borders, which exceed 3,600 km, the ministry spokesman Major-General Abdul Karim Khalaf told a press conference. more... | PDA  |
Iran rejects U.S. plan to boost troops in Afghanistan Posted: 31 Mar 2009 05:32 PM PDT Iran`s representative to a one-day international conference on Afghanistan, which was opened in The Hague of the Netherlands on Tuesday, reaffirmed his country`s rejection of a U.S. plan to boost its troops in Afghanistan. more... | PDA  |
Policing Afghanistan: Obama`s New Strategy Posted: 31 Mar 2009 05:06 PM PDT A centerpiece of the new strategy is a plan to ramp up the training of the Afghan army and police at a cost of some $2 billion a year, an astronomical sum in Afghanistan where the entire government budget is about half that amount. more... | PDA  |
Thailand: Back to Street Protests Posted: 31 Mar 2009 05:04 PM PDT Analysts fear that continued protests by the Red Shirts could prompt the pro-royalist Yellow Shirts to return to the streets, triggering off a replay of the pitched street battles that were witnessed in Bangkok late last year. more... | PDA  |
America`s Obsession With Weapons of War and Destruction Posted: 31 Mar 2009 05:03 PM PDT The `Top 10` shows on the channel appear each week in which military experts rate the world`s tremendously devastating weapons of war. They are discussed with such reverence, and technical specificity, for some, it may be easy to forget that these machines are actually used to terminate the lives of others. more... | PDA  |
Conficker: world`s greatest April Fool`s joke or `digital Pearl Harbor`? Posted: 31 Mar 2009 05:03 PM PDT On April 1, the worm will wriggle into computers through weaknesses in the Windows operating system. more... | PDA  |
Why the End of America is Closer than You Think Posted: 31 Mar 2009 05:02 PM PDT Most tend to think of public demonstrations as signs of a political instability. But in fact, public demonstrations are a sign of a healthy Democratic process. It is in America, where the sheeple have been terrorized into staying inside the boundaries of their little `protest zones,` that you find a fragile, unstable nation. more... | PDA  |
US: Support Builds in Congress to Lift Embargo Against Cuba Posted: 31 Mar 2009 05:00 PM PDT A bipartisan group of U.S. senators and interest groups is backing a bill that would end the long economic embargo against Cuba, including travel restrictions to the island. more... | PDA  |
Overloading, Greed & Lack of Shipping Transport Know-How Likely Causes of 2 Incidents at Kantang Posted: 31 Mar 2009 09:24 AM PDT Overloading and a lack of required cones and lashing resulted in the Sri Trang Logistics incidents which could have been avoided. more... | PDA  |
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