Archive for August, 2008
Israel, PA to aim for peace deal by year’s end
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Fish Oil Supplements Help With Heart Failure
Sunday, August 31st, 2008SUNDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDay News) — Daily supplements of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids — the kind found in fish oil — reduced deaths and hospitalizations of people with heart failure, an Italian study found.
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Georgia was the “last straw” for Russia
Saturday, August 30th, 2008MOSCOW (Reuters) – A keen sense the West cheated Moscow out of promised warmer ties after the Cold War explains why Russia, recovered from post-Soviet collapse, has refused to be cowed over Georgia and demanded its views be heard.
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Top Iran general says attack on Tehran would ignite ‘world war’
Saturday, August 30th, 2008A senior Iranian military commander has warned that a “world war” would erupt in the event the United States or Israel launch an offensive against his country, AFP quoted the state news agency IRNA as reporting on Saturday.
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Concerns voiced about gay ruling
Saturday, August 30th, 2008Two Christian bodies expressed concern on Friday at a Pretoria High Court ruling that the NG Kerk in Moreleta Park had unfairly discriminated against a gay music teacher when it fired him.
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Gustav swells to dangerous Cat 3 storm off Cuba
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
This image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Gustav taken at 6:55 a.m. EDT Saturday Aug. 30, 2008. Gustav swelled to a fearsome Category 3 hurricane early Saturday with winds of 115 mph as it approached western Cuba on a track to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast three years after Hurricane Katrina. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami called the storm ‘dangerous’ and said it had reached the status of a major hurricane, the second one of this Atlantic season after Bertha in July. 5 a.m. EDT Saturday, Gustav’s eye had left the Caymans behind and was about 255 miles east-southeast of the western tip of Cuba. It was moving northwest near 12 mph. (AP Photo/NOAA)
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Report: Iran supplied Hizbullah with advanced missiles
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Al-Quds al-Arabi reports missiles can accurately hit targets in Israel, weapons to be used by Lebanese organization in event that Israel or US launch attack against Islamic republic
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Obama camp hits station airing critic
Friday, August 29th, 2008Amid attempts to quash ‘radical’ ad, tries to stop interview with researcher
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Dem cops cuff, stuff Christian girls
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Jayne White, 17, was arrested for chalking sidewalk messages critical of Barack Obama’s support for abortion
Julia Giacopuzzi, 15, had her arms twisted behind her, and then was lifted off the ground by her arms, by police during the Democratic National Convention in Denver
Sidewalk chalk messages challenged Obama’s moral positions
Iran says 4,000 atomic centrifuges working: report
Friday, August 29th, 2008
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran has 4,000 working nuclear centrifuges, an official said in remarks published on Friday, in line with a number verified by the U.N. atomic watchdog but lower than a figure cited by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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