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| Thailand: One-million-baht bounty offered for Thaksin`s arrest Posted: 06 Apr 2009 06:30 PM PDT  The bounty is offered by the group of business leaders to anyone who could bring Thaksin Shinawatra to Thailand to face his two-year prison sentence on corruption charges. more... | PDA
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| S African prosecutor drops charges against Zuma Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:24 PM PDT  The announcement paves the way for Jacob Zuma to become South Africa`s next president without the prospect of impending prosecution. more... | PDA
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| Report: Israel holds 423 Palestinian children Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:20 PM PDT  `The children stay in very difficult circumstances in the Israeli jails,` the center said in a report, adding the Israeli jailers `put them under psychological pressure and some jailers molested some of the children.` more... | PDA
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| Pentagon chief outlines new agenda for U.S. defense spending Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:07 PM PDT  U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recommends increasing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance funding by 2 billion dollars, adding 500 million dollars to field and sustain more helicopters... and buying more aircraft for the special forces. more... | PDA
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| Pakistan seen reluctant on US agenda Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:06 PM PDT  It is not clear whether supporting President Zardari, and $1.5 billion in aid for each of the next five years, can change the mood, said former interior minister Aftab Ahmad Sherpao. Fighting the insurgency is commonly seen in Pakistan as an American cause, not a Pakistani one, he said. more... | PDA
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| Nonsense in Madagascar Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:04 PM PDT  The forced resignation of Marc Ravalomanana amounts to a coup d`etat which is something that the continent ought to be saying good bye to. The military`s expressed preference for Andry Rajoelina amounts to undue interference in the democratic process. more... | PDA
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| Plan For `Internal Borders` Within The UK Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:03 PM PDT  Under the new powers, police will be able to track the movements of around 60 million domestic passengers a year. more... | PDA
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| Ward Churchill´s Case: Ordinary Folks Once Again Defeat the System Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:02 PM PDT  The jury, as if often the case, saw through the political subterfuge to the root of the problem, which was that Churchill´s body of writing would never have been subject to investigation had it not been for the climate of political repression that followed the 9-11 attacks. more... | PDA
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| The `Hubble` of lasers faces challenges Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:01 PM PDT  In a building the size of a football stadium, engineers have assembled the framework for a network of 192 laser beams, each traveling 1,000 feet (300 meters) to converge simultaneously on a target the size of a pencil eraser. more... | PDA
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| Obama`s Open War on Labor Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:00 PM PDT  Imagine the hypocrisy - open-checkbook trillions for Wall Street criminals v. a thinly disguised war on organized labor by scolding the auto giants for not forcing their workers to make greater sacrifices. more... | PDA
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