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WB Requests and US Delivers

Robert — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:19:18 +0000

The US will be releasing $200 million in emergency aid to countries, largely affected by the soaring cost of basic food necessities resulting to riot and chaos such as Africa, Egypt, and elsewhere. Chaos and rioting from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt to Mozambiquehas gained global attention to their plight.�

This was largely in response to the appeal made by the World Bank President, Robert Zoellick.�

“While many are worrying about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs, and it is getting more and more difficult every day,” Zoellick said late last week in a speech opening meetings with finance ministers.

Hopefully this will somewhat ease the affected country’s woes.

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Hilary’s Chief Strategist Resigns

Gary — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:17:26 +0000

One of Sen. Hilary Clinton’s chief campaign strategist, Mark J. Penn, resigned last Sunday. This has been the second shake-up to the New York Senators campaign since a onetime front-runner decided to support her competitor for the Democratic Candidate for the U.S. Presidency, Sen. Barack Obama.

The ex-strategist resigned because of a conflict in interest. Penn, as a president of a giant PR Firm, Burson-Marsteller, met with Colombias ambassador and discussed the promotion of free-trade agreement. Unfortunately, Clinton was against the idea. Penn then apologized for the error in judgment and the Colombian government fired his firm.

According to Maggie Williams, Clintons campaign manager, Geoff Garin and Howard Wolfston will take over Penns job.

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Senior al Qaeda Planner Dies

Robert — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 08:57:11 +0000

According to counterterrorism officials yesterday, the Senior al Qaeda Planner Abu Obeida al Masri has died. He was identified as the key person in the London transit bombings in 2005 and a failed 2006 plot to blow up U.S. bound commercial airliners.

al Qaeda decided to hold off the announcement of the death in the hopes that they could claim martyrdom as part of the terrorist operation, but none materialized. There was no comment on how the chief planner died. Unfortunately, his position has now been taken by another Egyptian, Sheik Sayed al Masri, a finance official at al Qaeda’s organization.

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Zimbabwe elections Underway

Gary — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:56:42 +0000

The Zimbabweans are going to vote for their next President. Some voters slept at the polling stations, most got in line before dawn. A guard has left his post at a mall and walked for two hours before he got to the polling station, and even teenagers are now flocking to vote. One of them said, “The young people were not really interested because they had no real concerns. Now things are hard for us. Most of us are unemployed and our parents cannot support us because they have younger children (our siblings) to send to school.”

Will this be President Robert Mugabe’s last few days as President? A lot of critics say that it is. Here are just some of the reasons why they think so:

100,000% increase in inflation
HIV/AIDS cases have increased
Currency is now worthless
Food and Fuel shortages

His two opposition candidates, Morgan Tsvangirai and Simba Makoni believes that they will win because of the reasons above. However, if no one wins more than 51 percent of the votes, the two may likely unite and go for a second round.

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Iran’s Nuclear Standoff

Gary — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:10:40 +0000

The six major world powers which includes Germany, Russia, France, Britain, United States and China, has circulated a proposal for resolution of third sanctions against Iran to call for vigilance on all banks, asset freezes, and travel bans.� This is because Iran pressed on with its nuclear work, despite UN sanctions.

Kenya’s Stability

Gary — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:58:35 +0000

The crisis in Kenya showed no sign of ceasing. The post-election economic damages cost up to 1 billion USD, left almost half a million homeless and 486 dead. Fortunately, international mediation looks like it is progressing, when political groups have decided to cooperate with Kofi Annan, UN secretary-general, to settle the problems.

US Aids Iraq’s Fight Against Militia

Gary — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:35:05 +0000

The U.S. aids Iraq’s Prime Minister by sending in an airstrike against the Shi’ite militias last Thursday and Friday. This happened amidst the escalating violence and political infighting within the nation.

Although American officials said that this campaign is lead by the Iraqi forces, they have been unable to secure Basra and requested for assistance from both the American and British military. Help came in the form of Helicopters. It exchanged fire with the ground-based Shi’ite militia in Baghdad. Rockets smashing the Sunni Vice President’s office, killing one person.

Currently the nation is under curfew, as the Mahdi Army fighters and the combined American and Iraqi soldiers fight it out.

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US and S. Korea Reacts to N. Korea’s Missile Test

Gary — Mon, 10 May 2010 06:38:56 +0000

Not so good. According to reports, they say that the North Korea’s Missile Testing the other day was a, …kind of activity is not constructive, rather their government should concentrate on completing their list of nuclear weapons activities and finishing the disablement of its nuclear program.

Last Friday morning, North Korea launched test missiles three ship-to-ship missiles. This came a day after South Korea commented that any further expansions of the project in Kaesong would happen once the North resolved the nuclear weapons issue. South Korean President, Lee Myung-bak said they will be closely monitoring the situation.

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Dalai Lama: Not a Separatist

Gary — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:59:12 +0000

The Dalai Lama called on Chinese leaders to, exercise wisdom and to initiate a meaningful dialogue with the Tibetan people.”

The spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists was blamed on the escalating violence in Tibet. This was rejected by the Dalai Lama saying that he had no objections in keeping Tibet with China and has no intention of sabotaging the Olympic games.

Global reactions are telling only one thing: dialogue. Both U.S. President Bush and Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd have called on the Chinese government to have a sit-down meeting with the Dalai Lama representatives and face up to the Human Rights abuses in the country.

Bush Praises Maliki’s Decision

Gary — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:47:26 +0000

President Bush praised Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for confronting the Shi’ite militia forces in Basra. According to Bush, the PM, shows his leadership and his commitment to enforce the law in an evenhanded manner” and “demonstrates to the Iraqi people that their government is committed to protecting them.” He continued on by saying that the militia can only do one thing: retreat.

However, things seem to have turned out for the worse. Another U.S. Civilian was killed in the Green Zone, and the Iraqi government spokesman was kidnapped by militia forces. Because of all these, the Iraqi government decided to implement a curfew.

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