World
China, not Cheney, is now big player in Iraq’s oil
July 3, 2009Attention Dick Cheney: Anyone who thought that by invading Iraq the U.S. would get a lock on Iraq's oil has another think coming. Yesterday, Iraq’s cabinet approved a deal with the China National Petroleum Corporation and...
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Nicaraguan Alexis Arguello, world boxing legend, dies at 57
July 3, 2009Alexis Arguello, 57, a three-time world champion boxer and national sports legend from Nicaragua, died July 1. Arguello was elected mayor of the country’s capital city of Managua last year from the current governing Sandinista Party....
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A grasshopper a day …
July 3, 2009A woman eats a fried grasshopper Monday in Hague, the Netherlands, June 29, 2009. Gerda Verburg, Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands presented Monday the Cabinet Note on Sustainable Food. It is...
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Israeli troops seize aid ship
July 2, 2009Original source: Israeli commandos have seized the crew of a ship carrying aid to Gaza and forced the vessel to sail to an Israeli port. The Israeli military said that it had boarded The Spirit of...
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Defeated Mousavi says Iran’s new gov’t ‘illegitimate’
July 2, 2009TEHRAN, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi said in a statement posted on his website on Wednesday that Iran's new government is 'illegitimate.' 'From now on ...the majority of society, of which...
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