Pin Itemailprint First, Fox News sticks up for Ron Paul, now the Vatican condemns GMO crops. Hell must be freezing over. If farmers in Africa had greater access to fertile land that was safe from armed conflict and pollutants, they wouldn’t have a need for genetically modified crops, said Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the Pontifical [...]
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First, a tribunal found the former president guilty of war crimes, now he’s a wanted man…sort of. Amnesty International is calling for the arrest of George W. Bush when he visits Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Zambia later this month. The organization believes Bush should be arrested and detained for human rights abuse. AI first made it [...]
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Tragedy in Togo as at least six Togolese soccer players were killed and several others injured yesterday after a bus transporting the team crashed into a ravine and burst into flames. In a statement read on television, the Togo government said President Faure Gnassingbe had ordered that those injured from the Etoile Filante soccer club [...]
Here are your top stories for this Sunday, November 20, 2011: – Gadhafi’s son caught – Violent clashes erupt in Egypt – Police pepper spray students at UC Davis – Pope Benedict XVI visits Africa Incoming search terms:top US news stories on november 20 2011
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President Barack Obama has ordered about 100 U.S. troops to head to Africa to assist in hunting down the leaders of the notoriously violent Lord’s Resistance Army. “I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph [...]
Imagine the scene…you’re peacefully riding your mountain bike through the beautiful plains of Africa, when BOOM…you’re suddenly taken out by a buck. That’s exactly what happened to mountain biker Evan van der Spuy of Team Jeep South Africa. He got nailed by a red Hartebees at a mountain bike race at Albert Falls Dam. The [...]
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A 50-year-old South African grandfather woke up kicking and screaming, literally, in a morgue where he had been placed by an undertaker who thought he was dead. The undertaker in Libode in the Transkei region picked the man up on Saturday after his family had been unable to wake him up. He examined the body, [...]
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It’s not every day that a new country is born. South Sudan became the newest nation on the planet early this morning, officially breaking away from Sudan following two civil wars over five decades that cost the lives of millions of people. Residents of the new South Sudan celebrated by dancing in the streets, banging [...]
GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons just bagged an elephant. A video of Parsons shooting an elephant in Zimbabwe is currently going viral on the web and, as you might expect, he’s taking some heat for it. Of course, PETA has chimed in by closing its account with GoDaddy, and they’re asking others to do the same. [...]
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Scientists in Kenya seem to have tracked down one of the oddest flies in the world after a long search for a bug called the “terrible hairy fly”. The bug was first discovered in 1933 and then again in 1948. Since that time, there have been several different expeditions to a site located between Thika [...]
Have you always wanted to have ocean-front property but could never afford it? Perhaps you should buy some land in Ethiopia. A 35-mile giant crack in Africa will create a new ocean, according to researchers. The crack, which is 20 feet wide in certain areas, began opening up in 2005. At the time, some experts [...]
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